tar backup to remote tape drive

[Byron Sonne]

On the off chance that anyone has been following this drama, it would 
appear I've got a solution; it uses the 'buffer' command. I also turned 
off compression as I've now opted to do it in hardware (and it was 
confusing me; I couldn't believe 2.4GB of data was being compressed into 
479MB, I thought something was screwing up!):

tar -cevf - / | ssh sheridan buffer -u 100 -B -t -p 75 -o /dev/nst0

Later,
B

p.s. Yes, the 'sheridan' hostname is a B5 reference. Best sci-fi show ever!

> 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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