From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jan 8 09:47:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA06864 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 09:47:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp) Received: from nash.pr.mcs.net (nash.pr.mcs.net [204.95.47.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA06858 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 09:47:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alex@nash.pr.mcs.net) Received: (from alex@localhost) by nash.pr.mcs.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) id LAA16764; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 11:44:23 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from alex) Message-Id: <199801081744.LAA16764@nash.pr.mcs.net> Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 11:44:23 -0600 (CST) From: Alex Nash Reply-To: nash@mcs.net Subject: Re: recovering tar archieve / ssh To: shredder@hack.babel.dk cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 8 Jan, chrw wrote: > > Hello, > > I hope someone can help me out or give me a hint on the following > problem. I thought i finally had a working effective way of makign backups > using tar, with several machines located physically away from my > office, using a single streamer mounted on a host on my desk. > > Ive been using tar thru an ssh pipe to the fbsd streamer host, like > > tar cvfpl - * | ssh -c blowfish molly 'cat > /dev/nrst0' Throw in '-e none' to the ssh command line. It's possible that ssh is seeing the escape character followed by an exit command ("~."). Alex