From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 28 7:37:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smnolde.com (c-24-98-60-141.atl.client2.attbi.com [24.98.60.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDB6737B400 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 07:37:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from bsd ([192.168.10.7] helo=bsd.smnolde.com) by smnolde.com with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 3.30 #1) id 16qbxa-0003h3-00; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 10:37:06 -0500 Received: from scott by bsd.smnolde.com with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16qbxZ-000Jfq-00; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 10:37:05 -0500 Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 10:37:05 -0500 From: "Scott M. Nolde" To: Stanislav Grozev Cc: Patrick O'Reilly , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: find | cpio syntax Message-ID: <20020328103704.A75379@smnolde.com> References: <20020327215404.A39175@smnolde.com> <00ed01c1d637$4c5ccca0$b50d030a@PATRICK> <20020328082608.C39175@smnolde.com> <20020328133053.GC8461@meerkat.dungeon> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020328133053.GC8461@meerkat.dungeon>; from tacho@factline.com on Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 02:30:53PM +0100 X-GPG_Fingerprint: 0BD6 DDB4 2978 EB60 E0C8 33F2 BC34 9087 D869 AB48 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stanislav Grozev(tacho@factline.com)@2002.03.28 14:30:53 +0000: > On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 08:26:08AM -0500, Scott M. Nolde wrote: > > Yes, but tar doesn't preserve file ownerships. The idea is to use find to > > give a pathspec to cpio which will write to stdout which is piped to ssh > > to a remote machine where the tgzi file is built. > > > > If there is limited space on the remote machine I cannot make a tgz of its > > filesystem. But if i can write everything to stdout which is piped to ssh > > i can store the compressed file on the local machine which has the space. > > > > Any further ideas? > > why not: > > tar cfp - . | ssh host -c '(cd /path; tar xvfp -)' > > (p for permissions, v - verbose) > > -tacho tar doesn't preserve ownerships. cpio will. btw, I've already used tar -zcvpf - . | ssh host "tar -C path -zxvfp -" but again, my concerns are ownerships. - Scott -- Scott Nolde GPG Key 0xD869AB48 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message