From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 31 11:33:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from unix.megared.net.mx (megamail.megared.com.mx [200.52.207.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7D2A37B8DF for ; Wed, 31 May 2000 11:33:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Received: from ales (ales.megared.net.mx [207.249.162.41]) by unix.megared.net.mx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA94207; Wed, 31 May 2000 13:35:13 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Message-ID: <08f901bfcb2e$973db100$d2630a0a@megared.net.mx> From: "Alejandro Ramirez" To: "Doug Poland" , "Ryugen C. Fisher" Cc: "ListServer FreeBSD Questions" References: <4.3.1.2.20000531131413.00a95cc0@mail.palaver.org> Subject: Re: tar to ftp site Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 13:32:35 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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" To: "Doug Poland" Cc: "ListServer FreeBSD Questions" 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 > > > > > >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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message