Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 23:21:51 -0800 From: Glenn Dawson <glenn@antimatter.net> To: user <user@dhp.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tarring over ssh question - pulling from the source to tarfiles Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.2.20051101232052.035a3040@cobalt.antimatter.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0511020211270.8180-100000@shell.dhp.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0511020211270.8180-100000@shell.dhp.com>
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At 11:20 PM 11/1/2005, user wrote: >Hello, > >Sometimes I have a bunch of data that I want to transfer from source to >destination over ssh, but I want to tar it up on the way over (that is, I >don't have enough space on the source to create a tarball of the data and >then just scp the tarball over...) > >I do that like this: > >tar cf - /files | ssh user@10.0.0.10 "cat > >/usr/home/user/file_data2.tar" > >or if I want to split it into multiple files: > >tar cf - /files | ssh user@10.0.0.10 "split - -b 1024m >/usr/home/user/file_data2.tar" > >This works just fine. > >----- > >My question is, what if I want to initiate this process from the >destination machine ? In the above example, I am on the source machine, >and I ssh to the destination, making the tar files as it goes. > >What if, instead, I am logged into the destination machine, and I want to >do the same thing - all from the destination machine ? > >That is, I know that there is a directory /files on the source that I >want, and I have a login to ssh them to me, but I do not want to logon to >the source - I want to suck /files to me, but also tar them up on the way. > >Is that possible ? rsync/rdist are not available. I need to do this over >ssh and tar, as in the above examples. rsync would be a much better choice for your needs. -Glenn >thanks! > >_______________________________________________ >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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