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GNU tar can access remote tape drives over SSH

Submitted by Aleksey Tsalolikhin on Fri, 2008-08-22 15:41.Backups

This is nifty - you can specify a remote tape drive, root@unix2:/dev/tape

Example:

unix1# tar -x -v --rsh-comand /usr/bin/ssh -f root@unix2:/dev/tape
./file1
./file2
./file3
...
unix1#

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