Tar source
Matt Smith
matt at medicod.UUCP
Tue Dec 4 11:55:36 AEST 1990
A while back I submitted an article asking for either the source code
to tar or a better way of implementing the following:
rsh Miranda "tar cf - /" | dd of=/dev/exab0 ibs=1 obs=1024
The purpose of the command is to backup the machine Miranda onto an
exabyte that is connected to another machine over the ether-net. The
above command works very slowly
I have gotten several responses of what to try. What seems to work is
to change the ibs=1 to ibs=512 (tar blocks are 512 bytes). I just
got a message to try setting both ibs and obs to 102400. I will try
that later when I get a chance.
Thanx to all who responded
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