[SunHELP] gnu tar and remote tape drive

[Edward Chase]

Our Novell guy just bought Veritas.  Once he gets comfortable with it and 
gets off of another product, we'll be looking into adding the Unix and 
Linux modules.  For now it's up to me and tar

That command would appear that it did something.

Mar  4 15:16:10 www pam_rhosts_auth[31818]: allowed to 
root at spectrum.providence.edu as root
Mar  4 15:16:10 www PAM_pwdb[31818]: (rsh) session opened for user root by 
(uid=0)
Mar  4 15:16:10 www in.rshd[31819]: root at spectrum.providence.edu as root: 
cmd='dd of=/dev/st1 obs=bs20b'
Mar  4 15:16:10 www PAM_pwdb[31818]: (rsh) session closed for user root

However when I look at the tape on www, I don't see anything...

I did tar -tvf /dev/st1



At 03:01 PM 3/4/2002 -0500, Henry Buford III wrote:
>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.
>
>
>  -----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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