If this is a one off process, why bother with rsync at all. rsync is for synchronizing data repeatedly.
Why not something like use some incantation of tar to get the files you need into a stream on stdout and pipe that through ssh to your remote machine and have the remote side of ssh put the file on disk for you. tar -cvj /archive/dir | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cat >backup.tar.bz' This is how you do a remote store of a locally create tar bzipped archive. Critch ----- "Andrew Farnsworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Speed is not really an issue here as this will be a one off process > rather > than something I do on a regular basis. It is going to take a long > time no > matter what as I will be backing up 50-100 Gb of data. I recently > realised > that I have been dumping stuff to this box for a long time and have > never > made a backup of it. So, I thought I would back it up prior to > upgrading / > updating it. > > Thanks for the link, it does look like a good hands on howto. > > Andy > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Evan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Tunneling over ssh would take longer because of the overhead of ssh. > I have > > never really set up rsync before but this howto looks pretty > > straightforward. http://transamrit.net/docs/rsync/ of course > depending on > > distro (and if i am reading right you are going to do this to a > mac?) things > > will be different. > > > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Andrew Farnsworth > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > >> I am trying to backup my server on the internet and was thinking of > using > >> rsync. At the moment I need to backup a single volume but was > considering > >> doing the entire server. Can someone point me in the direction of > a good > >> intro to using rsync along with information on which ports I need > to open in > >> the firewall to allow this to happen? Though I guess I could just > tunnel it > >> over my SSH session now that I think about it... > >> > >> Thanks and MAIH... > >> > >> Andy > >> > >> > > -- Steven Critchfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
