Tom you big jerk. LOL! jk man... Well, I would call it, piping through a tunnel? Tunneling through a pipe? The concept seems very *nix-like to me.
*shrug* Thanks to all... wish me luck! Tom Smith wrote: > John Jolet wrote: > > >>On Jan 24, 2006, at 11:20 AM, Tom Smith wrote: >> >> >>>Jeff wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Hey guys. >>>> >>>>I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the hard >>>>drive >>>>to store a tar file. I'd like to pipe a tar through ssh, but not sure >>>>what the command would be. Something to the effect of: >>>> >>>># cat /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com 'tar data.info.gz' >>>> >>>>So that, the data is actually being sent over ssh, and then >>>>archived on >>>>the destination machine. >>>> >>>>Help! >>>> >>>>:-) >>>> >>>> >>> >>>Not possible. What you want is more along the lines of AFS, NFS, >>>SMB, or >>>the like. >>> >> >>WRONG. I do it all the time. > > > Ok,. my bad. (Open mouth, insert foot. :-D ) > > Being a *nix junkie, I tend to do some things old school--that is, there > are specific tools that are (dare I say) more specialized to such a > task. You know... SSH = Secure SHell, SCP = Secure CoPy, SFTP = Secure > FTP... So I had never really looked into using the "ssh" program for > copying files between servers--it's always been more of a telnet-like > application for me. > -- Darth Vader: I find your lack of faith disturbing. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list