network backups with tar

[Jason Dale]

Hello,   1) When I do a man page on 'tar', the screen comes up all garbled. I believe      this was discussed on the list a while back, but I can't seem to find those mails      that will shed some insight on why this is happening. Does this have something to      do with the $TERM variable?   2) I am using 'tar' to create a backup of a directory structure to another Linux server     on the same LAN. Here is a screen dump:   #  tar   -cvzf   -f  209.212.123.157:/usr/backups /tmp/testdir   Gives this output tar: 209.212.123.157\:/usr/backups: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: Removing leading `/' from member names tmp/testdir/ tmp/testdir/testfile1 tmp/testdir/testfile2 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors   I am trying to backup the directory /tmp/testdir and copy the archive onto the server substituted by the IP address 'IP'. Where am I going wrong here?    Regards, Jason