Backup software

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

I don't still have the original message, but yes, dd should be
able to extract to a new file:

	dd if=$TAPE of=new-file.tgz ...

Or, of course, this should work, too:

	dd if=$TAPE ... | tar -xzf - ...

or..

	dd if=$TAPE ... | cat > new-file.tgz

-derek

jbk <jbk at mail2.gis.net> writes:

> the original script was written to rsh to other hosts and
> dump devices or mounts to a remote hosts tape.  I wanted to
> keep this functionality intact for future use.
> I am assuming that I can extract the data from the tape with
> 'dd' and pipe it to 'tar' which will extract to a empty
> directory of my choosing. Is this not the case?
> 'dd' should at least beable to copy from tape to an empty
> directory.
> 
> Jim Kelly-Rand
> 

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