From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 21 14:17:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cody.jharris.com (cody.jharris.com [205.238.128.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 778B637B419 for ; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 14:17:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (nick@localhost) by cody.jharris.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f8LLHL109396; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 16:17:21 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nick@rogness.net) Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 16:17:21 -0500 (CDT) From: Nick Rogness X-Sender: nick@cody.jharris.com To: Devin Smith Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: remote tar over ssh In-Reply-To: <20010921204749.8573@mail.rintrah.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Devin Smith wrote: [snip] > 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) > Give the obs=32768 option to the dd command. Nick Rogness - Keep on Routing in a Free World... "FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message