tar backup to remote tape drive

[Byron Sonne]

Greetings all,

Finally back to doing regular backups on my home boxen as should be
done... but I have a question for y'all:

Client is my OpenBSD 3.3 box, backing up to /dev/st0 on my SuSE 8.2 box,
over 100Mb ethernet, using the BSD not GNU flavour of tar.

If I use the following command string:

	tar -czvf - / | ssh sheridan dd of=/dev/st0 bs=10240

it fails due to to dd choking on /dev/st0 as an invalid parameter, and I
get a broken pipe. However, if I use the following command string:

	tar -czvf - / | ssh sheridan dd of=/dev/st0 obs=20b

Everything goes swimmingly. What the frig?

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