From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 31 13:19:38 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA20265 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 31 May 1995 13:19:38 -0700 Received: from virginia.edu (uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU [128.143.2.7]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA20243 for ; Wed, 31 May 1995 13:19:33 -0700 Received: from server.cs.virginia.edu by uvaarpa.virginia.edu id aa09731; 31 May 95 16:19 EDT Received: from stretch.cs.Virginia.edu (stretch-fo.cs.Virginia.EDU) by uvacs.cs.virginia.edu (4.1/5.1.UVA) id AA14855; Wed, 31 May 95 16:19:30 EDT Posted-Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 16:19:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: by stretch.cs.Virginia.edu (4.1/SMI-2.0) id AA24694; Wed, 31 May 95 16:19:28 EDT Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 16:19:27 -0400 (EDT) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" Reply-To: adrian@virginia.edu To: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: ftp'ing a tar onto tape? Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi Folks, It occurred to me that I could avoid usign lots of disk space by ftp'ing directly to my tape. It kind of works, but beaks in an unexpected manner.To get the entire FreeBSD/docs' directory, I issue a command like: ftp> get docs.tar /dev/nrst0 Unfortunately, when I rewind the tape and try to list the tape contents, I get a few files listed correctly, then error messages such as: st0: 10752-byte record too big tar: read error on /dev/nrst0: Input/output error Is there some way to controll the blocking from the ftp server, so that this works? thanks, Adrian adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| Support your local programmer, http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~atf3r/ --->>>| STOP Software Patent Abuses NOW! Member: The League for -->>| info at ftp.uu.net:/doc/lpf, print Programming Freedom ->| "join.ps.Z" for an application