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Subject: Re: tar to ftp site
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Hi,

	There seems to be a Novell client for FreeBSD
in the ports collection. ports/net/ncplib. Maybe you can
use it to mount a Novell volume and then do a normal tar with
the archive being created on the mounted volume?

	Just wondering.

Regards
Willem Brown

Doug Poland wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately, this is the only Unix box on the network
> and I do not have administrator access to Novell.  My
> FreeBSD box is kind of a rogue server in a hostile
> Novell/WinNT environment.
> 
> Someone suggested wget from the ports collection.  I'll
> try that.  Otherwise, I've decided to write a script
> that tar's "bite-sized" chunks of my file system to
> files, then ftp those files to remote WinNT machines
> for safe keeping.
> 
> Not the best backup scheme in the world.  Maybe I can
> convince them to buy a tape backup for a couple
> hundred bucks?
> 
> --
> Doug
> 
> Subject: Re: tar to ftp site
> >
> >
> > 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
> > >
> > >
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