>OK. That means you have a "process in the middle" that saves stdin to
>a file and only starts outputting to stdout once it gets a signal.
We cannot assume we have file space on the client. I suspect it would
be easier to just load up the blocks in memory, but that then implies
a potential for a lot of memory use.
>The restart would simply be done the "old fashioned" way, right?
Yes, although with all the extra protocol it would have to understand
this is a "real" dump, not an estimate.
> tar cvf /dev/null /cdrom
>
>to verify if all data-blocks on the CDROM are readable. Fooled you!
This should work:
tar cvf - /cdrom | cat > /dev/null
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