From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 7 17: 1:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 311FA37B405 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 17:01:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 5003 invoked by uid 100); 8 Nov 2001 01:01:40 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15337.55668.787086.233038@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 19:01:40 -0600 To: "Canadian General Help Desk" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backups In-Reply-To: <000b01c167d8$0e69dbe0$fd7b87d1@cangen.net> References: <15336.57173.815248.161131@guru.mired.org> <000b01c167d8$0e69dbe0$fd7b87d1@cangen.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [context recovered from top posting.] Canadian General Help Desk types: > From: "Mike Meyer" > > Canadian General Help Desk types: > > > > > > How do I backup 2 freebsd systems with 1 tape drive. I can do it with = > > > the redhat system I have to a bsd system but from bds to bsd I get an = > > > error. Can anyone explain how I can correct this? > > I can't quite read the error message. Could you send it again so I > > have some idea as to what's wrong? > This is what I enter and get from the server: > su-2.05# tar -cvf root@satan:/dev/sa0 --rsh-command=/usr/bin/ssh / > tar: unrecognized option `--rsh-command=/usr/bin/ssh' > tar: Unknown option. Use 'tar --help' for a complete list of options. Check the tar man page. In articular, the TAR_RSH variable on the version in -STABLE appears to do what you want. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message