From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jan 8 16:06:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA21359 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 16:06:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp) Received: from br01.acw-web.com (br01.acw-web.com [156.46.248.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA21316 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 16:06:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from info@bentreality.com) Received: from br02.acw-web.com (br02.acw-web.com [156.46.248.99]) by br01.acw-web.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id SAA02029; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 18:06:14 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19980108180550.0070d59c@acw-web.com> X-Sender: jwenger@acw-web.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Thu, 08 Jan 1998 18:05:50 -0600 To: Gary Blumenstein From: Jack Wenger Subject: Re: recovering tar archieve / ssh Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Is there a way to do tar over a ftp link? I've got a Jaz drive on a Mac, and I'd like to be able to do that. My main webserver is a FreeBSD 2.2.2 release box. No tape. At 09:46 AM 1/8/98 -1000, you wrote: > >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 > >-- >Gary Blumenstein, President Fly Technologies, Inc. >garyb@fly.com http://www.fly.com/ > > > > > ------------- Excellence in Web Design -------------- Bent Reality Graphics Jack Wenger, Owner info@bentreality.com http://www.bentreality.com 608-233-8571 or 1-888-701-1026 IBM Business Partner - Internet Specialist