This is hard to describe but I'll try. How can access another host from one host? example, is it possible to tar across to another host on your network? if i want to tar a directory directly to another host, can i do something like tar cvf host:/home/file.tar mydirectory ? or will i have to tar on host one and ftp the file across? Kind of an odd question, but thought I'd ask anyways.

thanks

found an example: for example, to tar files from one host to the tape on another:


tar cvfb - 20 files |
rsh hostname dd of=/dev/rmt/0 obs=20


BUT i get invalid block size for my 20 files, i substituted /home instead of 20 files and then when i take off the block size, i got permission denied.


tar cvhf - /home |
rsh myhost dd of=/dev/rmt/0

You can use

tar cf - <file> <dir> | remsh <host> -l <user> " tar xf -"

tar cf - will dump it on terminal and tar xf - will take this dump and open it on another server.

I hope this will solve your problem.