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 -- Until later, Geoffrey "I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." - Thomas Jefferson