Maybe you should use xfsdump. Acording to the man page you can have that
tell you when to change a tape. That may be better then tar for backup
purposes.
Brian
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 Gary Strahan wrote:
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> I have been using ssh-2.2.0 to do system backups, but am running into
> problemswith multiple tape archives. The problem is that it does not
> prompt me to change tapes. Can anyone recommend a way around this?
>
> Here is the command I am presently using:
>
> tar -cvf - stuff | \
> su someusr -c '/usr/local/bin/ssh foo.bar.edu "(dd
> of=/dev/rmt/tps0d6nrv)"'
>
> As I implied, this command works perfectly fine, it just doesn't prompt at
> the end of the tape.
>
> A few notes:
> - I have tried setting the blocksize, but something about tar on these
> SGIs prevents it from working properly.
> - I do know about the "-l" option in ssh, but for some reason it
> doesn't behave properly here, but using "su" works fine.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gary
>
Brian Schramm
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