[lug] Tape backup error

[Bob Collins]

Thanks Nate,

I will look into this and give it a try.

Now that I have a number of ways to backup to tape I am finding it even
harder to restore from tape across the network.  I am still looking and
trying.

Bob

Nate Duehr wrote:
>
[snip] 
> Just back from Texas and saw this thread... one other comment to add,
> all good comments so far...
> 
> tar definitely is network-aware and uses rsh/rmt...
> 
> *Some* GNU software will recognize an exported environment variable of :
> 
> RSH=SSH
> 
> ... and will attempt the connection over SSH instead of RSH when asked.
> 
> I've never looked to see what lib does this.  If it's part of the rsh
> libs, it's possible that an rsh-aware GNU/tar would also understand
> this.
> 
> If it did, a quick key-exchange for password-less SSH between the tape
> server and the box being backed up, and you'd have a direct tar/ssh
> ability using only tar's command line and not the numerous good shell
> scripts other's provided.
> 
> If someone has time to try it out, holler if it works.  I won't get time
> to mess with it on the boxes at home until well into 2004!  ;-)
> 
> Happy New Year! -- Coming soon to a calendar near you.
> 
> --
> Nate Duehr, nate at natetech.com
> 
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