Howard Lowndes wrote: > Have you considered doing rsync across machines. it is considerably faster > as it only transfers the changes.
Ah that that would be sensible to run in between full tar backups. Wow I am right at this moment doing an "apt-get install rsync" and will browse that info but I would still like to work out how to stream a tar backup over ssh correctly. > > This is the script that runs: > > ----------------------- > > root:# cat test > > #!/bin/bash > > > > # This is what will run when it all works :-) > > #ssh root@martel 'tar cvf - /home' | dd > /dev/rmt0 > > > > # This is here for testing, testing dir contains a few files > > ssh root@martel 'tar cvf - /home/mikel/testing' > > ----------------------- > > > > The problem is that when ssh logs into root .bashrc & .profile gets run > > and there is some output from the login shell. This is prepended to the > > tar file so its not a tar file anymore. I can see the lines of the login > > if I run "/test | more". > > Question: > > How do I stop the login stuff from prepending to the tape.? > > Is there a better way to pipe tar through ssh or use scp? so > > that it streams from the Alpha to the tape machine. Mike -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Lake Active caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical. Safety Convenor, Australian Speleological Federation Owner, Speleonics (Australia) -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
