How do I tar to another computer?
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From: Todd on 4 Jun 2010 14:18 > *I've* done this with ssh: > > tar cvf - /home/.| ssh SomeOtherMachine dd of=/home/myfiles.tar > > Tar can use rmt (Remote Magnetic Tape) to tar onto a remote tape drive: > > tar cvf SomeOtherMachine:/dev/st0 /home/. I wonder if I would get away with substituting a directory for the tape drive?
From: General Schvantzkoph on 4 Jun 2010 14:47 On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 11:13:12 -0700, Todd wrote: > On 06/03/2010 03:04 PM, General Schvantzkoph wrote: >> Are there any good IDE ports on the box? If FTP doesn't work then the >> easiest thing would be to plug in an old IDE drive and just do a cp. >> You could use the CDROM IDE port if nothing else is available. > > I could go by the used computer shop and see if I could pick up a 2 GB > drive that would work with his bios. > > fdisk is missing the "list" command. Any parallel IDE drive will do, if you can't find an old one then you can still buy an 80G drive from Newegg if you need to ($40), the 80G drive was the big drive in the 1999, 2000 era when you box was new so it will be able to handle it. You might want to format it to EXT2 on the new box first just in case you don't have any formatting tools on the old box.
From: Todd on 4 Jun 2010 14:57 > You might want to format it to EXT2 on the new box first just in case you > don't have any formatting tools on the old box. Great tip. Thank you!
From: John Hasler on 4 Jun 2010 14:50 Todd writes: > I think he does have rcp. What would I need to do to the new server > to get it to accept rcp? An rsh-server package. -- John Hasler jhasler(a)newsguy.com Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA
From: Robert Heller on 4 Jun 2010 15:18
At Fri, 04 Jun 2010 11:18:45 -0700 Todd <todd(a)invalid.com> wrote: > > > > *I've* done this with ssh: > > > > tar cvf - /home/.| ssh SomeOtherMachine dd of=/home/myfiles.tar > > > > Tar can use rmt (Remote Magnetic Tape) to tar onto a remote tape drive: > > > > tar cvf SomeOtherMachine:/dev/st0 /home/. > > I wonder if I would get away with substituting a > directory for the tape drive? It depends on how rmt (tar will remotely fire up rmt) on the remote machine feels about that. It is likely to barf: '/directory is not a tape drive' or some such silly message -- eg it might try to do a tape drive specific IOCTL on whatever you give it and that is not likely to work well. > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller(a)deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/ |