From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 24 07:27:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA24182 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 07:27:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from seabass.progroup.com (catfish.progroup.com [206.24.122.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA24171 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 07:26:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from craig@localhost) by seabass.progroup.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id HAA06617 for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 07:26:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199610241426.HAA06617@seabass.progroup.com> Subject: remote tar/rmt To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 07:26:07 -0700 (PDT) From: "Craig Shaver" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I have a question about doing a tar to a device on another host. Using the tar command does not seem to work. The man page says you should be able to do "tar -cvf otherhost:/dev/rst0 local.files". But this just hangs. Does anyone use tar to do backups to a remote device? Thanks, -- Craig Shaver (craig@progroup.com) (415)390-0654 Productivity Group POB 60458 Sunnyvale, CA 94088