From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Apr 29 02:37:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA08066 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 02:37:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hack.babel.dk (shredder@hack.babel.dk [194.255.106.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA08057 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 02:37:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shredder@hack.babel.dk) Received: from localhost (shredder@localhost) by hack.babel.dk (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA16207 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 11:45:41 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 11:45:40 +0200 (CEST) From: chrw To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: blocking factor / cpio Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, I have a question which is not directly associated with fbsd, i hope somone can give me advice anyway .. I started using gnu cpio for backups instead of tar, and i wonder if there are any special stuff i should be aware of. Im using gnu find, piping the output to gnu cpio -o | ssh 'cat > /dev/nrst0', writing directly to the a remote tape device. Is there any considerations concerning blocking factor, that could improve reliability and/or speed? also, the hosts im doing backup on is SGI based, and the streamer host is a freebsd, i think there might be problems with different header information?? what about the swap bytes/word stuff, any considerations? Until now i have simply callled cpio with " cpio -o | ssh -c blowfish 'cat > /dev/nrst0' and it seems to work fine .. any suggestions or comments will be appreciated. Regards, Christoffer Walther Unix admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message