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From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: tar to remote devices
Date: 20 Feb 1995 14:21:39 +0100
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Andreas Haakh <ah@alvman.robin.de> wrote:
>> On my FreeBSD 2.0 I'm trying to make remote backup with tar but
>> without success. [...]
>When I first used tar to do remote backups I encountered a similar
>problem which was solved when I created the following symbolic link
>
>/etc/rmt -> /usr/sbin/rmt
This will also be in 2.1. The problem here is that /etc/rmt is part
of the rmt ``standard'', so there's not much a choice. Renaming it on
either side (local or remote) will make us incompatible to the world.
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