Martin Spott writes:
> You should try to export the filesystem containing the FIFO via NFS and
> mount it onto a remote machine running the FDM (or vice versa, maybe reading
> from the mounted fs is faster). I've done remote backups quite often using
> FIFO's via NFS:
> 
> # rsh <remotehost> cat FIFO > /dev/tape &
> # tar cvfp - /home FIFO
> 
> 
> Synchronization works quite well,

Really?  What platform was this?  Supposedly the Unix Programming FAQ
says this won't work, but it sounds like something sgi would do.

    http://www.erlenstar.demon.co.uk/unix/faq_3.html#SEC44

Regards,

Curt.
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