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- From: frank@croton.nyo.dec.com (Frank Wortner)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: copying from tape remotely (rmt tar rmt0h)
- Keywords: rmt tar tape
- Message-ID: <4455@datum.nyo.dec.com>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 14:19:12 GMT
- References: <1992Sep13.174634.4746@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
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- You can do simple cases like so:
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- rsh remote_machine dd if=/dev/rmt0h bs=10k | tar xvf -
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- to extract, and
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- tar cvf - | rsh remote_machine dd of=/dev/rmt0h bs=10k
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- to write.
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- GNU tar will also do what you want:
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- gtar xvf remote_machine:/dev/rmt0h
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- Frank
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