Tape drive

[Don Knott]

On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Craig R Marshall wrote:

> I have a SCO machine with a 12/24 dat drive in it,  There is only about
> 632.2Mb of
> data getting backed up on it from the SCO machine.
> 
> 
> Can anyone suddgest an "easy" way to backup another server with the
> drive...??
> 
> Eg,  I want to backup files from apollo at 192.168.1.5 to the sco machine
> hermes at 192.168.1.8

I use this on occasion:

ssh -c blowfish root at remotehost "tar -zcvf - /path/to/save" | cat > 
/local/filename

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