Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 10:37:05 -0500 From: "Scott M. Nolde" <scott@smnolde.com> To: Stanislav Grozev <tacho@factline.com> Cc: Patrick O'Reilly <bsd@perimeter.co.za>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: find | cpio syntax Message-ID: <20020328103704.A75379@smnolde.com> In-Reply-To: <20020328133053.GC8461@meerkat.dungeon>; from tacho@factline.com on Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 02:30:53PM %2B0100 References: <20020327215404.A39175@smnolde.com> <00ed01c1d637$4c5ccca0$b50d030a@PATRICK> <20020328082608.C39175@smnolde.com> <20020328133053.GC8461@meerkat.dungeon>
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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
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