Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 22:19:47 +0000 (UTC) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: remote tar over ssh Message-ID: <9ogee3$1bgc$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <20010921204749.8573@mail.rintrah.org>
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Devin Smith <devin-freebsdquestions@rintrah.org> wrote: > I have an Onstream DI-30 Tape drive that only runs under linux. Doubtful. As a misleading way of saying that there's no FreeBSD driver it's correct, though. > AFAIK, tar is the only linux utility I have which properly writes > to it. Doubtful. tar uses plain write() calls, there's no special tape access magic. > fbsd$ tar -b 64 -cvf - /tmp | ssh root@backup dd of=/dev/ht0 You don't give a blocksize to dd, so it uses its default of 512 bytes. In fact, your kernel log... > 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) ... even says so. > any suggestions? fbsd$ tar -cvf - -b 64 /tmp | ssh root@backup dd bs=32k of=/dev/ht0 For better performance, replace dd with buffer. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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