> That doesn't work for me, at least not from Solaris 2.4, I get messages such as:
>% tar -cvf yanowitz.starnet.com:/dev/tape /etc /home /var
>tar: yanowitz.starnet.com:/dev/tape: No such file or directory
> I also tried the rsh yanowitz.starnet.com and it acted identically to
>a rlogin.
> These may be particular to Solaris and not Linux.
> rsh seems to be the most promising as I can ALMOST do:
>tar -cvf - /etc /home /var | rsh yanowitz.starnet.com tee /dev/tape
Well, you did ask the question in a Linux mail list, so the answer was for
the Linux version of tar, which is the GNU tar. Sun Unix doesn't use that
version and therefore doesn't support remote system names as part of the
file name.
So, for Solaris, you have to fetch the GNU tar source and compile it and
use it as gnutar. Then the remote filename will work.
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