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- From: maschepe@thama1.apgea.army.mil (Michael A. Schepers)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: tar piped to a dd
- Message-ID: <34032@adm.brl.mil>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 17:16:30 GMT
- Sender: news@adm.brl.mil
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- Hi,
-
- I use the "tar" command piped to a "rsh dd" to archive files on
- one system to a tape drive on another system. Everything seems to
- execute fine, however certain diagnostic messages are printed out
- at the end of the transfer that may (or may not) be important.
-
- The command I use is:
- Pyramid> tar cvfB - * | rsh cdc4360 dd of=/dev/exabyte obs=20b
-
- The diagnostic message is:
- 688104+32486 records in
- 35358+1 records out
-
- Now, I understand from the dd man page that this message indicates
- f+p records in(out): numbers of full and partial records
- read(written). Should I be concerned that these numbers are not
- identical? Can anyone give me a more in depth explanation of the
- diagnostic messages??
-
- Thanks for your help,
- Mike Schepers.
-
-