tar backup to remote tape drive

[Walter Dnes]

On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 01:38:52PM -0400, Byron Sonne wrote

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

  On a tangent, this remote backup idea looks cute.  Would...

tar -cevf - / | ssh sheridan bzip2 \> backup.tar.bz2

work ?  Maybe the stream should go to a script on the target machine, so
we don't have to worry about escaping the redirection command ?

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