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Re: Remote tar
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Remote tar
- From: mh at mike dot franken dot de (Michael Hirmke)
- Date: 24 Sep 1998 00:22:00 +0200
- Organization: Kommunikationsnetz Franken e.V. (Nuernberg)
Hi Stephen,
>I have been trying to use the Cygwin tar to backup remotely to a tape
>drive on a Linux host, but get error messages that the remote host or
>device can't be found. I have verified that I can rsh to the Linux box,
>although the rsh being used is the WinNT version. I have also used the
>Linux tar on the machines other boot personality successfully to backup
>up remotely.
[...]
>For reference, the command being used is
>
>tar cvf kat:/dev/st0 .
This works for me:
tar --rsh-command=/usr/local/bin/ssh -cvf aqua.hirmke.de:/dev/tape .
>
>--
>Stephen Vance | http://www.deneb.com
Bye.
Michael.
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