Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 16:19:27 -0400 (EDT) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" <atf3r@server.cs.virginia.edu> To: FreeBSD Questions List <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: ftp'ing a tar onto tape? Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.950531161105.24373A-100000@stretch.cs.Virginia.edu>
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Hi Folks, It occurred to me that I could avoid usign lots of disk space by ftp'ing directly to my tape. It kind of works, but beaks in an unexpected manner.To get the entire FreeBSD/docs' directory, I issue a command like: ftp> get docs.tar /dev/nrst0 Unfortunately, when I rewind the tape and try to list the tape contents, I get a few files listed correctly, then error messages such as: st0: 10752-byte record too big tar: read error on /dev/nrst0: Input/output error Is there some way to controll the blocking from the ftp server, so that this works? thanks, Adrian adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| Support your local programmer, http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~atf3r/ --->>>| STOP Software Patent Abuses NOW! Member: The League for -->>| info at ftp.uu.net:/doc/lpf, print Programming Freedom ->| "join.ps.Z" for an application
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