From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 31 12:42:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from home.offwhite.net (home.offwhite.net [156.46.35.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F57B37B817 for ; Wed, 31 May 2000 12:42:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brennan@offwhite.net) Received: from localhost (brennan@localhost) by home.offwhite.net (8.9.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA11114; Wed, 31 May 2000 14:42:13 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 14:42:13 -0500 (CDT) From: BWS - Offwhite To: Doug Poland Cc: ListServer FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: tar to ftp site In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Why not mount the drive with something like NFS, SMB or some other system? I am not sure if Novell can do SMB mounts or not. I have done it with FreeBSD in the past. You may also be able to do NFS. Novell can do a lot of things. Then you simply backup the remote mount to tape or whatever backup media you want to use. Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com Microsoft: Will you get a macro virus today? http://www.greasydaemon.com/noms/ <- Why avoid MS? On Wed, 31 May 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