On Saturday 31 December 2005 14:26, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 18:58:17 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote:
tar outputs to stdout by default,
Not always.
From man tar
-f, --file [HOSTNAME:]F
use archive file or device F (default -, meaning stdin/stdout)
So -f - is
The file /etc/default/tar contains a list of tape devices. So on
Solaris 2.8
if -f is not specified and $TAPE is not set, which it isn't by
default, then
tar will use a tape device *not* stdin/stdout
Steve
--
Thanks, Steve. This is the point I was trying to make, but I'm at
home with
On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 08:53:45 -0600, John Jolet wrote:
But you are correct, today this -f - is unnecessary.
Tomorrow? who knows what decisions might be made regarding default
output. My point is, being precise costs nothing... nothing but a
few keystrokes.
That's a fair point. The
Neil Bothwick schrieb:
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 18:58:17 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote:
tar outputs to stdout by default,
Not always.
From man tar
So, why do you suppose that the command is called
tape (file) archiver?
While you're right as far as GNU tar is concerned,
you're wrong as far
On Dec 30, 2005, at 9:21 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:22:26 -0600, John Jolet wrote:
or ssh sourcebox tar -czvf - /path/to/be/backed/up | dd
of=target.tar.gz
tar outputs to stdout be default, so -f - is redundant, as is the
use
of dd. All you need is
ssh hostname tar
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 09:44:09 -0600, John Jolet wrote:
tar outputs to stdout be default, so -f - is redundant, as is the
use
of dd. All you need is
ssh hostname tar cf /source/path backup.tar.gz
hmm, I'm not sure this behavior is consistent across all versions of
tar and all
Neil Bothwick schrieb:
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 09:44:09 -0600, John Jolet wrote:
tar outputs to stdout be default, so -f - is redundant, as is the
use
of dd. All you need is
ssh hostname tar cf /source/path backup.tar.gz
hmm, I'm not sure this behavior is consistent across all
On Dec 28, 2005, at 2:04 AM, Alexander Skwar wrote:
Mick schrieb:
Ideally I would like to connect and tar | scp the directories/
files from one
box to another in a single motion.
Use ssh instead:
tar | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat foo.tar
or ssh sourcebox tar -czvf - /path/to/be/backed/up
-Original Message-
From: John Jolet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 28 December 2005 14:22
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ssh and tar combined?
On Dec 28, 2005, at 2:04 AM, Alexander Skwar wrote:
Mick schrieb:
Ideally I would like
Hi All,
One day I hope to learn how to use ssh and the associated commands. So far
I have been struggling just to copy a file from one box (192.168.0.3) to
another (192.168.0.2). This is what I get, but and since I can't find the
'copied' file . . . I suspect it fails. I don't understand why:
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 23:53 +, Mick wrote:
Hi All,
One day I hope to learn how to use ssh and the associated commands. So far
I have been struggling just to copy a file from one box (192.168.0.3) to
another (192.168.0.2). This is what I get, but and since I can't find the
'copied'
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 23:53 +, Mick wrote:
Ideally I would like to connect and tar | scp the directories/files from one
box to another in a single motion. Any advice to help me understand how to
make this work, or why the above attempt fails would be much appreciated.
Locallly :
tar
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