It turns out that Steven Critchfield's timing in posting that tar over ssh trick was very good. I woke up this morning to a call from a teacher who runs Ubuntu, saying that their computer had "kernel panic" on the screen. It turns out she shut down her laptop half way through the upgrade to Intrepid. I booted it off a live CD (well, USB stick actually), chrooted into her install, and tried to save the day. This is certainly the first time I've seen package breakage that I could not fix via dpkg.
So now I'm backing up her 10.7 GB of personal files (mostly music) prior to a reinstall. I'm using the command that Steven posted, with the slight modification of the -a parameter for compression, in hopes of making things speed up a bit. tar -cvja /archive/dir | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cat >backup.tar.bz'<http://backup.tar.bz/> So my question is, how I do the inverse of this, to extract from the tarball over the network once I'm ready to put the teacher's files back on her laptop? An optional bonus would be to exclude all files beginning with a '.' in the home directory, so as not to overwrite the default user app settings. Douglass Clem crashsystems.net Public Key: http://crashsystems.net/pubkey.asc --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
