Subject: Re: backup
To: Joe Laffey <joe@laffeycomputer.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/18/1998 11:09:00
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Joe Laffey wrote:
> How do some of you back your system up? Do you mount a removeable on the
> SCSI chain and do it that way?
>
> Is this an ftp thing? Is there a way to pipe a gizball (big tar file
> that's been gzipped) to an ftp server? If there is I could tar and gzip my
> entire system and send to a Mac ftp server for archiving. Can this be
> done? I don't have enough space for two copies. (In other words I can't
> tar it, compress it and THEN ftp it.)
If you have enough for the original files plus compressed tarfile
you can always
tar czf tarfile.tgz <list of files>
If the remote end was a unix system you could
tar czf - <list of file> | rsh remotehost 'cat > tarefile.tgz'
David/absolute
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