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Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 09:46:25 -1000 (HST)
From: Gary Blumenstein <garyb@fly.com>
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To: chrw <shredder@hack.babel.dk>
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Subject: Re: recovering tar archieve / ssh
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On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, chrw wrote:
> Ive been using tar thru an ssh pipe to the fbsd streamer host, like
> 
> tar cvfpl - * | ssh -c blowfish molly 'cat > /dev/nrst0' 
> 
> everything seemed to work fine, but today i tried doing a desaster
> recovery test.. It start extracting fine, but after 1 or 2 mins tar
> terminates with "tar: Unexpected EOF on archive file" :(
> 

Try also including the -B option to tar.  This allows tar to read
"full blocks" when using pipes.

-Gary

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