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From: "Doug Poland" <dpoland@execpc.com>
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Subject: RE: tar to ftp site
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Now that sounds interesting... I'll check it out.

BTW, the wget port mentioned gets stuff from an FTP 
site or a HTTP URL and downloads it onto the FreeBSD
box.  Not what I'm looking for.

> 
> 	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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