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From: kurt@hi.uucp (Kurt Zeilenga)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Remote magtape
Message-ID: <5149@hi.uucp>
Date: Sun, 26-Apr-87 00:49:00 EDT
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Posted: Sun Apr 26 00:49:00 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 28-Apr-87 01:35:46 EDT
References: <664@luthcad.UUCP> <2644@phri.UUCP> <15097@gatech.gatech.edu>
Reply-To: kurt@hi.UUCP (Kurt Zeilenga)
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Hope@gatech.UUCP (Theodore Hope @ LEGOLAND) writes:
 >In article <2644@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
 >>Rdump and rrestore are the only programs I know that use
 >>remote tape drives, but many is the time I wished for rtar.
 >
 >I don't know if you'd consider the following a kludge, but I

Not a kludge, this is even documented (in my SUN 3.3 manual).

 >use the following to read a tar tape on a remote machine:
 >
 >   % rsh remote dd of=/dev/rmt8 ibs=10240 | tar xvf -	(tar bs of 20)

When running tar with input being a pipe, it is usually a good idea
to add a "B" flag, read the manual for more info...

I use:

% rsh remote -n dd of=/dev/rmt0 bs=20b | tar xvBfb - 20 <files>

-- 
	Kurt Zeilenga	(zeilenga@hc.dspo.gov)