Backup software

[jbk at mail2.gis.net (jbk)]

>Um, instead of:
>
>     tar zcf - ... | dd of=$tape
>
>why don't you:
>
>        tar zcf $tape ...

the original script was written to rsh to other hosts and
dump devices or mounts to a remote hosts tape.  I wanted to
keep this functionality intact for future use.
I am assuming that I can extract the data from the tape with
'dd' and pipe it to 'tar' which will extract to a empty
directory of my choosing. Is this not the case?
'dd' should at least beable to copy from tape to an empty
directory.

Jim Kelly-Rand