[ale] writing to tape

[Geoffrey]

Greg Freemyer wrote:
> What's your command line including pipes.
> 
> I find having dd read from a pipe requires the lack of noerror,sync.

ssh servername "tar -cf - $BackupThis" | dd bs=10k of=/dev/nst0

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Until later, Geoffrey

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