matt@medicod.UUCP (Matt Smith) (12/04/90)
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 ======================================================================== ...uunet!cs.utexas.edu!utah-cs!caeco!medicod!matt