you shoudl be able to do this, 
another way could be to use rsh: 
do something like dd if=/dev/ra2c | rsh otherhost dd of=ra2file

happy hacking,
isildur

On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Brian Wheeler wrote:

> We're getting ready to retire our VAX 4000/200 (with an  odd "VaxStation 4" 
> nameplate) and I'd like to make disk images of the RA81s and RA82s in the
> system and burn them to CD.  Could I make a NetBSD boot tape, boot it, 
> configure the network, then ftp the disk images off (via something like
> "get <whatever_device_file_name> dua0.img")?
> 
> Is this possible?  There's not enough disk space to make an image directly
> on the machine...
> 
> Thanks!
> Brian Wheeler
> bdwheele@indiana.edu
>