From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 29 14:41:07 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11AB316A4CE for ; Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:41:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from postal.mwvcaa.org (postal.mwvcaa.org [216.210.226.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2970E43D41 for ; Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:41:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from varieurd@mwvcaa.org) Received: from dvbsd.mwvcaa.int (unknown [192.168.0.1]) by postal.mwvcaa.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FE52511C7; Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:41:53 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:41:05 -0800 From: David Varieur To: Matthew Juszczak Message-Id: <20031229144105.6ade669a.varieurd@mwvcaa.org> In-Reply-To: <1072736923.2420.0.camel@prick> References: <20031229221921.24860.qmail@web41410.mail.yahoo.com> <1072736923.2420.0.camel@prick> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8a (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup Server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 22:41:07 -0000 On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 17:28:44 -0500 Matthew Juszczak wrote: > But there would only be one client .. the machine behind my > firewall...connecting to the two servers, which are publically > available. > > -Matt > Why not (from the client box)? ssh remotehost "cd /path/to/dir; tar -czf - dir_name" | cat >backup.tgz