On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 17:23 +0000, 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. [snip] > > > > 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
wow, I am quite blown away - not only at the fact that I just tried the above command (and it worked of course) but also that I've found a new way of doing something that I never thought of before. This is one to remember! (now, if only I'd backed up yesterday, before I did an accidental `rm *` instead of `rm *~`) -- Iain Buchanan <iain at netspace dot net dot au> It's not? Are you saying that you SHOULD allow people (other than William Wallace) to shoot lightning bolts from their arse? -- Seth Galbraith -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list