Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 16:47:49 -0400 From: Devin Smith <devin-freebsdquestions@rintrah.org> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: remote tar over ssh Message-ID: <20010921204749.8573@mail.rintrah.org>
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I have an Onstream DI-30 Tape drive that only runs under linux. AFAIK, tar is the only linux utility I have which properly writes to it. It needs to write in 32KB chunks, so tar -b 64 -cvf /dev/ht0 <dir> is what I use to back up local files. I need to tunnel a remote tar over ssh to the linux machine which has the drive installed from my FBSD machine. I have tried doing: fbsd$ tar -b 64 -cvf - /tmp | ssh root@backup dd of=/dev/ht0 but the tape drive does not seem to accept the data. It sounds as if the backup is going fine, but when I try to extract the data from the tape drive onto the linux machine: backup$ tar -b 64 -xf /dev/ht0 nothing is on there. I get the following error in my /var/log/messages: Sep 21 16:39:50 backup sshd[8100]: Accepted publickey for ROOT from 10.0.0.5 port 4892 ssh2 Sep 21 16:39:51 backup kernel: ide-tape: Reached idetape_chrdev_open Sep 21 16:40:03 backup kernel: ide-tape: ht0: use 32768 bytes as block size (512 used) any suggestions? The only thing I can think of is to pipe the data over to tar on the linux box and let tar do its work locally, but I can seem to string anything together to make this work. Thanks, --devin -- Devin Smith | Master of nothing in particular http://127.0.0.1 | devin-freebsdquestions@rintrah.org "How many people do *you* know whose mail server can handle 650MB email attachments?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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