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On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 17:23 +0000, Francesco Riosa wrote: |
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> Jeff wrote: |
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> > Hey guys. |
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> > I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the hard drive |
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> > to store a tar file. I'd like to pipe a tar through ssh, but not sure |
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> > what the command would be. |
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[snip] |
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> > |
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> > So that, the data is actually being sent over ssh, and then archived on |
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> > the destination machine. |
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> > |
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> tar -zcf - /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com "( cat > data.info.gz )" |
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> something similar, probably is possible to avoid the use of cat bat |
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> don't came in mind at the moment |
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wow, I am quite blown away - not only at the fact that I just tried the |
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above command (and it worked of course) but also that I've found a new |
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way of doing something that I never thought of before. |
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This is one to remember! |
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(now, if only I'd backed up yesterday, before I did an accidental `rm *` |
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instead of `rm *~`) |
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-- |
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Iain Buchanan <iain at netspace dot net dot au> |
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It's not? Are you saying that you SHOULD allow people (other than William |
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Wallace) to shoot lightning bolts from their arse? |
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-- Seth Galbraith |
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