On Wed, 2 May 2001, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> In message <Pine.NEB.4.30.0105021122290.258-100000@handy.villians.invalid>, Fre
> derick Bruckman writes:
> >> When I did a trial restore on the server machine, things weren't
> >> healthy -- restore said that it reached end-of-file in the middle of
> >> a file, and that it couldn't finish processing many assorted files.
> >
> >"ssh" does not give a transparent pipe by default. To use "ssh" as a
> >general substitute for "rsh", use "-o EscapeChar none". You could also
> >set that option, by host, in "~/.ssh/config".
>
> That sounds highly improbable when neither stdin nor stdout are ttys.
> In fact, I did some tests with ~ in the first position of a line, and
> nothing weird happened to it.  Here's what the man page says:

Hmmm. I see. I have no idea what's wrong with dump, then. I've used
"rdump" to back up file-systems that were a little larger than 2G,
including test restores of some of the files, but the dump was never
larger than 2G.


Frederick