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Date:      Thu, 24 Oct 1996 07:26:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Craig Shaver" <craig@ProGroup.COM>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   remote tar/rmt
Message-ID:  <199610241426.HAA06617@seabass.progroup.com>

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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,

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Craig Shaver  (craig@progroup.com) (415)390-0654 
Productivity Group POB 60458 Sunnyvale, CA  94088



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