Tom you big jerk. LOL! jk man...
Well, I would call it, piping through a tunnel? Tunneling through a
pipe? The concept seems very *nix-like to me.
*shrug*
Thanks to all... wish me luck!
Tom Smith wrote:
> John Jolet wrote:
>
>
>>On Jan 24, 2006, at 11:20 AM, Tom Smith wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Jeff wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hey guys.
>>>>
>>>>I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the hard
>>>>drive
>>>>to store a tar file. I'd like to pipe a tar through ssh, but not sure
>>>>what the command would be. Something to the effect of:
>>>>
>>>># cat /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com 'tar data.info.gz'
>>>>
>>>>So that, the data is actually being sent over ssh, and then
>>>>archived on
>>>>the destination machine.
>>>>
>>>>Help!
>>>>
>>>>:-)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>Not possible. What you want is more along the lines of AFS, NFS,
>>>SMB, or
>>>the like.
>>>
>>
>>WRONG. I do it all the time.
>
>
> Ok,. my bad. (Open mouth, insert foot. :-D )
>
> Being a *nix junkie, I tend to do some things old school--that is, there
> are specific tools that are (dare I say) more specialized to such a
> task. You know... SSH = Secure SHell, SCP = Secure CoPy, SFTP = Secure
> FTP... So I had never really looked into using the "ssh" program for
> copying files between servers--it's always been more of a telnet-like
> application for me.
>
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