Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 13:32:35 -0500 From: "Alejandro Ramirez" <ales@megared.net.mx> To: "Doug Poland" <dpoland@execpc.com>, "Ryugen C. Fisher" <Ryugen@palaver.org> Cc: "ListServer FreeBSD Questions" <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: tar to ftp site Message-ID: <08f901bfcb2e$973db100$d2630a0a@megared.net.mx> References: <4.3.1.2.20000531131413.00a95cc0@mail.palaver.org>
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Hi,
You have several options, you can do this with a graphical FTP client
like CuteFTP for windows or wxftp for Xwindows, but if you are using command
line ftp, some ftp servers support the form "get directoryname
directoryname.tar" and you are done.
Good Luck...
Ales
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryugen C. Fisher" <Ryugen@palaver.org>
To: "Doug Poland" <dpoland@execpc.com>
Cc: "ListServer FreeBSD Questions" <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: tar to ftp site
> 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
> >
> >
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>
> Ryugen, that "Old Frog" hisself
> Ryugen@palaver.org
>
>
>
>
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