On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 17:23 +0000, Francesco Riosa 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.
[snip]
> >
> > So that, the data is actually being sent over ssh, and then archived on
> > the destination machine.
> >
> tar -zcf - /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com "( cat > data.info.gz )"
>
> something similar, probably is possible to avoid the use of cat bat
> don't came in mind at the moment
wow, I am quite blown away - not only at the fact that I just tried the
above command (and it worked of course) but also that I've found a new
way of doing something that I never thought of before.
This is one to remember!
(now, if only I'd backed up yesterday, before I did an accidental `rm *`
instead of `rm *~`)
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Iain Buchanan <iain at netspace dot net dot au>
It's not? Are you saying that you SHOULD allow people (other than William
Wallace) to shoot lightning bolts from their arse?
-- Seth Galbraith
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