This example that Francesco illustrates seems to work pretty well. I
guess my main concern was with tar - would it be able to handle a
filesystem this large? Myself, I haven't seen or heard any scary stories
thus far. Anyone shed light on tar limitations?
Thanks for all the colorful replies.
:-)
-Jeff
Francesco Riosa 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.
>>
>
> tar -zcf - /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com "( cat > data.info.gz )"
>
> something similar, probably is possible to avoid the use of cat bat
> don't came in mind at the moment
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