From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 31 11:18: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bfm.org (mail.bfm.org [216.127.218.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D89E37B8DF for ; Wed, 31 May 2000 11:17:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Ryugen@palaver.org) Received: from primo.bfm.org ([216.127.218.20]) by mail.bfm.org (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-52399U2500L250S0V35) with SMTP id org for ; Wed, 31 May 2000 13:18:50 -0500 Received: from porta-pad.palaver.org (unverified [24.217.51.231]) by primo.bfm.org (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Wed, 31 May 2000 13:17:45 -0500 Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20000531131413.00a95cc0@mail.palaver.org> X-Sender: rfisher@mail.palaver.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 13:17:39 -0500 To: "Doug Poland" From: Ryugen@palaver.org (Ryugen C. Fisher) Subject: Re: tar to ftp site Cc: "ListServer FreeBSD Questions" In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG whilst on the subject, and to expose my ignorance once again... I am trying to transfer an entire directory structure from one machine to another.. my access is limited to telnet and ftp... mget will get the files, but not the directories and it will take a LONG time to go into each directory by cd, etc.. Is there a shortcut to solving this problem? MTIA At 12:00 PM 5/31/00, 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 Ryugen, that "Old Frog" hisself Ryugen@palaver.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message