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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: tarring to a remote Exabyte
Message-ID: <351@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 10 Mar 90 21:28:15 GMT
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Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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tar works fine with a locally-attached Exabyte, but I'm not having
much luck across a communications channel.

For example, why would
	tar cbf 20 /dev/nrxt0 ...
work, yet
	tar cbf 20 - ... | dd of=/dev/nrxt0 bs=20b

not?  Everything seems ok, but when I read it back I get
directory checksum errors.  (I've tried tar with and without B,
and block sizes of 8 and 20; no combination works)  For that
matter, dd on the input side doesn't do too well either.

I can NFS-mount most of the remote filesystems I want to back up
(avoiding the problem), but there are some cases where that isn't
an option, and I don't want to haul the drive around.

[I know about rdump, I don't want to use it.]

					-=EPS=-