Re: xfsrestore -i with ssh/rsh+dd as stdin

[Nicolas Kowalski <Nicolas.Kowalski@xxxxxxx>]

Jeremy Jackson <jerj@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Nicolas Kowalski wrote:
>
>> gaspard:/restore# dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=1024k | xfsrestore -J -i - /restore
>
>
> I'm not sure what the problem is, but what you are doing is meant do
> be done with rmt.  You can still use ssh, but instead of dd handling
> the tape the rmt utility will do it.
>
> You get other benefits too, like the ability to catalog your backups
> with xfsinvutil, and xfsdump/xfsrestore can handle moving between
> different tape files (filemarks).

I am using dd to force the "drive_simple" strategy of xfsdump and
xfsrestore; I do not want them to move between tape files, for various
reasons.

Thanks for your reply.

-- 
Nicolas