Jerry McBride wrote: > On Wed, 22 May 2002 18:34:15 -0700 Net Llama! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >>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. >> > > > You didn't mention if it was lan ready... If so, just copy the lot over to
Yes, it does have a 10/100 PCMCIA NIC. > the server and then to your backup medium of choice... Otherwise, if it > has a parallel port, score yourself a parallel lap-link style cable and > transfer it all via PLIP... it'll be slow as hell, but you'll end up with > a backup anyways... But ethernet is so much better... :') D`oh! Why didn't i think of this? <me so stupid> thanks! -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com 7:35pm up 34 days, 2:28, 3 users, load average: 0.19, 0.08, 0.07 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
