what about mounting a share (NFS or Samba) and making the tarbal on it? Bill Day
Linux 2.2.20-1tr i586 8:10pm up 7 days, 19:24, 2 users, load average: 0.01, 0.00, 0.00 ----- Original Message ----- From: Net Llama! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 9:34 PM Subject: backing up a laptop > Greetings, > I've got a bit of a problem on my hands. I've got a laptop with a 4GB > drive, that currently has about 1.7GB free (less than half). It has a > CDROM(not a burner) & floppy drive. Thus, the only way I can get files > on or off the HD, is via the floppy or with scp (ssh). > > The HD is partitioned so that hda1 is /boot, hda2 is swap, and hda3 is / > > What I want to do is backup the entire disk, however since I don't have > enough free space on the HD, i can't just create one big tarball. > > Does anyone know of a way to pipe the output from tar to scp so that i > could automatically dump the tarball onto a remote box? I've been > pooring through the tar & scp man pages and can't find any way of doing > this. > > If anyone has any alternate solutions, i'd be eager to hear them as well. > > thanks! > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com > > 6:25pm up 34 days, 1:18, 3 users, load average: 0.06, 0.10, 0.08 > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.363 / Virus Database: 201 - Release Date: 5/21/02 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
