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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1275 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:33:18 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!Germany.EU.net!hcshh!hm From: hm@hcshh.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: tar networked client/server works for 386BSD (hints included) Message-ID: <1642@hcshh.hcs.de> Date: 14 Feb 93 12:29:37 GMT References: <C2DtIo.Juw@sugar.neosoft.com> Organization: HCS GmbH, Hamburg, Europe Lines: 23 In <C2DtIo.Juw@sugar.neosoft.com> karl@NeoSoft.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes: >Boy, whenever we dig into 386BSD we are astounded by how much is there and >how well it works. me too .... >Tonight we (Nick Handel <nhandel@neosoft.com> & I) looked into GNU tar's >networked client-server ability to use tapedrives on other systems over the >network. >We were trying to back up a 1 gigabyte 386BSD machine onto a DAT drive on >another 386BSD machine. >To save you any suspense, it worked great. i did this too, but recognized that the tar-archive was written using a blocksize of 1 instead of the usual 20, any way to change this ? hellmuth -- hellmuth michaelis HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH hamburg, europe hm@hcshh.hcs.de tel: +49/40/55903-170 fax: +49/40/5591486