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To: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber)
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Subject: Re: dump over ssh
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> So far I have received *zero* reactions to my proposal in PR #15830.
> 
> I suggest to add to dump/restore the capability to access remote
> tapes over arbitrary rsh(1)-like commands, which would in particular
> allow to run dump over ssh, say
> 
> # dump -0aP ssh -f host:/dev/nrsa0 /
> 
> (The PR includes a proof of concept patch to implement this.)
> 
> No interest?

Not really, when you can do it already with the 'unix way'.

dump -0af - / | ssh host dd of=/dev/nrsao bs=10k


Nate


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