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Re: [Help-tar] colon in archive name and force local
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Reuti |
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Re: [Help-tar] colon in archive name and force local |
Date: |
Tue, 6 Mar 2018 08:28:04 +0100 |
Hi,
> The first detail where I would like to verify my understanding is the
> reason why this feature was introduced in the first place. I'm assuming
> that the expected use case is to access remote tape device, which I can
> do even without the feature via pipe something like:
>
> $ tar cf - something | ssh remotehost "cat > /dev/sr0"
I use this often. But one should set:
set -o pipefail
as an error in `tar` gets undetected otherwise (or check the written archives
afterwards).
-- Reuti