Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 17:15:36 +0200 From: Willem Brown <willem@brwn.org> To: Doug Poland <dpoland@execpc.com> Cc: ListServer FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: tar to ftp site Message-ID: <39367E18.8B7B5A84@brwn.org> References: <NDBBKMNOJKJGAEKJNLIAOEKADNAA.dpoland@execpc.com>
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Hi, There seems to be a Novell client for FreeBSD in the ports collection. ports/net/ncplib. Maybe you can use it to mount a Novell volume and then do a normal tar with the archive being created on the mounted volume? Just wondering. Regards Willem Brown Doug Poland wrote: > > Unfortunately, this is the only Unix box on the network > and I do not have administrator access to Novell. My > FreeBSD box is kind of a rogue server in a hostile > Novell/WinNT environment. > > Someone suggested wget from the ports collection. I'll > try that. Otherwise, I've decided to write a script > that tar's "bite-sized" chunks of my file system to > files, then ftp those files to remote WinNT machines > for safe keeping. > > Not the best backup scheme in the world. Maybe I can > convince them to buy a tape backup for a couple > hundred bucks? > > -- > Doug > > Subject: Re: tar to ftp site > > > > > > why make your job differcult when you can use the command below? > > > > man dump > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 01 Jun 2000, Doug Poland wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > This may be a stupid question, but here goes... > > > > > > Can I create a tar file and pipe it through to > > > an ftp connection? > > > > > > What I'm trying to accomplish is a complete > > > backup of a FreeBSD box on a Novell LAN. The > > > hard drive does not have enough free space to > > > hold a tar of all "partitions". > > > > > > Am I dreaming? Is there another way to > > > accomplish this task? > > > > > > MTIA > > > > > > -- > > > Doug Poland > > > dpoland@execpc.com > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- /* =============================================================== */ /* Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD. The choice is yours. */ /* =============================================================== */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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