[SunHELP] gnu tar and remote tape drive

[Edward Chase]

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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