Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 09:32:31 -0400 (EDT) From: "Steve Bertrand" <iaccounts@ibctech.ca> To: "Joost Bekkers" <joost@jodocus.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Back-up on remote machine Message-ID: <2807.209.167.16.15.1091712751.squirrel@209.167.16.15> In-Reply-To: <20040805115127.GA64666@bps.jodocus.org> References: <5.2.0.9.0.20040805174307.00a0a970@127.0.0.1> <20040805115127.GA64666@bps.jodocus.org>
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> On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 05:58:24PM +0700, Roger Merritt wrote: >> One example I found on the WWW is: tar -czf - /some/file | \ >> ssh host.name tar -xzf - -C /destination. >> >> That's not quite what I want, because I don't see any need to untar >> everything at the far end, but I can't send a file without using >> some >> command to ssh. > > If all you need is somthing at the other end capturing the data try > > ... | ssh remotehost "cat - > myfile" Remember though, that the remote file will be a tarball itself. Here is the command I use frequently, to get exactly what you want...a tarball of a local file system on a remote machine: # tar -cvzf - /home/steve | ssh steve@server 'cat > tarball.tar.gz' Regards, Steve > > -- > greetz Joost > joost@jodocus.org > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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