Dumping to another servers tape drive

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On Oct 5, 2004 at 08:49, Douglas Phillipson in a soothing rage wrote:
>
>Wayne Leutwyler wrote:
>> 
>> On Oct 4, 2004, at 6:04 PM, Douglas Phillipson wrote:
>> 
>>> I run:
>>>
>>>
>>> /sbin/dump -0uf - /dev/sda9 | ssh rsldata 'dd of=/dev/nst0'
>>>
>>> It seems to go to the tape fine.  Then on rsldata I run:
>>>
>>>
>>> /sbin/restore -if /dev/nst0
>>>
>>> I get the error:
>>>
>>> /sbin/restore: Tape block size (512) is not a multiple of dump block 
>>> size (1024)
>>>
>>> I've setup ssh so as to not require a password for sshing to rsldata.
>>>
>>> I try to adjust block sizes in both "dd" and restore to no avail.  Any 
>>> idea what I'm doing wrong?  This typically works fine on Unix 
>>> (Solaris) but not Fedora.
Could it be that you need to specify the block size in the
dump part?

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