On Thursday 23 March 2006 22:52, Bo Andresen wrote: > On Thursday 23 March 2006 21:24, Michael Kintzios wrote: > > What should I run to untar the rest of /usr (excluding /usr/portage) into > > /dev/hda3 and at the same time delete it from within the gentoo_usr.tgz > > archive, so that I get some space in /dev/hda2 to untar /usr/portage? > > Really, what I think is needed here is untarring of the archive, while > > untarred data is dynamically deleted immediately after untarred to make > > space for more data to be untarred . . . do I make sense? > > You don't have to scp the archieve to the machine before unpacking it. > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Backup#Securely_backing_up_a_filesystem_on_a_r >emote_machine >
Perhaps that link wasn't as useful to you as I thought when I transmitted it. Here are a couple of other examples. I think it requires GNU tar. This compacts data recursively from /from/path and using gzip, pipes it through ssh and extracts it into /to/path: # tar -zcf - /from/path | ssh desktop.homelinux.com "tar -C /to/path -xzf -" And this just pipes through ssh and extracts using bunzip2 to /to/path on remote machine # cat file.tar.bz2 | ssh desktop.homelinux.com "tar -C /to/path -xjf -" -- Bo Andresen -- [email protected] mailing list
