From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 1 0:44:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.alpha.net.au (mail2.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EA3037BFDF for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 00:44:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from freebsd.freebsd.org (surry-pool-144.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.144] (may be forged)) by mail.alpha.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA02166; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 17:46:27 +1000 From: Danny To: "Doug Poland" , "ListServer FreeBSD Questions" Subject: Re: tar to ftp site Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 17:51:34 +1000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00060217521007.00323@freebsd.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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