DUH ME! Open mouth, insert face...
Ok, what I *meant* to say from post #1, is, the filesystem I'm
tarballing is quite large - 25g. The tar command should be able to
digest this, yes? Should I be worried?
Thanks again all.
Jeff wrote:
> 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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