[SunHELP] gnu tar and remote tape drive

[Henry Buford III]

Sounds like you need NetBackup! ;)

Have you considered example 3 from man?

     Example 3: Using tar to Transfer Files Across the Network

     The following is an example  using  tar  to  transfer  files
     across the network. First, here is how to archive files from
     the local machine ( example) to a tape on a remote system  (
     host):

     example% tar cvfb  -  20 files |  rsh host dd of=/dev/rmt/0  obs=20b
      messages from tar
     example%
     In the example above, we are creating a tarfile with  the  c
     key  letter,  asking  for verbose output from tar with the v
     function modifier, specifying the name of the output tarfile
     using  the f function modifier (the standard output is where
     the tarfile appears, as indicated  by  the  `-'  sign),  and
     specifying  the blocksize (20) with the b function modifier.
     If you want to change the blocksize,  you  must  change  the
     blocksize  arguments  both  on the tar command and on the dd
     command.




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 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Edward Chase [mailto:echase at postoffice.providence.edu] 
Sent:	Monday, March 04, 2002 2:04 PM
To:	sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject:	[SunHELP] gnu tar and remote tape drive

I've got a Solaris 8 box that I'm attempting to backup using a tape drive 
on a Red Hat Linux box.

I've compiled and installed GNU tar v1.13 on the box.

I'm attempting the following:

# /usr/local/bin/tar -cvf operator at www:/dev/st1 ./etc
sh: unknown host
/usr/local/bin/tar: Cannot open operator at www:/dev/st1: I/O error
/usr/local/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

The Solaris box knows what "www" is, I can ssh over to it.

Any pointers, I'm searching around but not found anything thing that's
helping.


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