How do I tar to another computer?
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From: Todd on 2 Jun 2010 12:23 >> Speaking of telnet, I remember years ago something called sz and rz. I >> wonder if they will work over telnet? > > tar should work over telnet > Sounds perfect. How do I pipe (if that is the correct term) a tar ball over a telnet session?
From: General Schvantzkoph on 2 Jun 2010 12:45 On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:22:22 -0700, Todd wrote: > On 06/02/2010 05:18 AM, Kenny McCormack wrote: > >> netcat is all you need! >> >> > The computer is *ancient*. I can not tell how anything gets on or off > of it. I just cn not take a modem compiles piece of software and > install it on the dinosaur. I thought you said that you have FTP on the system, if you do then that's your simplest solution. I've never heard of a *nix system that didn't have the basic command line FTP client on it.
From: John Hasler on 2 Jun 2010 12:52 Post the output of "ls /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin" so that we can see what commands are available. You just need something which can write to a port. You can do that with Bash now, but I don't recall when that was added. If you have Perl Bob's your uncle. -- John Hasler jhasler(a)newsguy.com Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA
From: unruh on 2 Jun 2010 22:29 On 2010-06-01, General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > On Mon, 31 May 2010 21:48:38 -0700, Todd wrote: > >> On 05/31/2010 09:45 PM, Robert Riches wrote: >>> On 2010-06-01, Todd<todd(a)invalid.com> wrote: >>>> Hi All, >>>> >>>> I got tasked on upgrading a 9 year old Caldera >>>> Linux server to CentOS 5.5. The old server is so old, I am having >>>> trouble figuring out ways to transfer the data directory I need to the >>>> new server. No USB ports, severely broken IDE ports, a RAID card I >>>> never heard of, a fried 4 mm tape drive, yada, yada, yada. Do you have internet? If you do, use rsync to transfer the data. You will need to install rsync on the old machine, (the new one should have it already) Then do rsync -av /data/directory/path/ newmachine.internet.name:/new/data/directory/path That will use ssh by default to transfer. If there is no ssh, then on the new machine edit /etc/rsync.conf and put in the lines [Newdata] path=/new/data/directory uid=0 gid=0 max connections=1 read only=false Then do rsync -av /data/directory/path/ newmachine.internet.name::Newdata/ This will transfer the files and will md5 them as well to make sure the trasfered files are the same as the old. >>>> >>>> And to top it off, Caldera has a very reduced set of commands. >>>> >>>> But tar does work on Caldera. What is the syntax to save a tar ball >>>> on another computer? (I hope Caldera implemented that -- they did very >>>> little else.) >>>> >>>> And, what do I have to do to the receiving computer to allow it to >>>> accept a remote tar ball? You have to be able to make an internet connection between them. >>>> >>>> Many thanks, >>>> -T >>> >>> Are the ftp and/or scp commands available? If one end is running ftpd >>> or sshd, you could use the ftp or scp commands from the other side to >>> transfer the file. >>> >>> >> No ssh anything, so no secure cp (scp). But I do think a rudimentary >> ftp is there. Thank you for the tip! ftp is fine. The problem is that you do not know that the transfer went OK as ftp does not checking. >> >> The stinkin' mt (magnetic tape) command only has to commands: rewind, >> and fast forward one set. This is going to be a nightmare! >> >> -T > > As long as you have ftp then you have a solution, just set up an FTP > server on the new box and then upload the tar file.
From: unruh on 2 Jun 2010 22:32
On 2010-06-02, Todd <todd(a)invalid.com> wrote: > On 06/02/2010 05:18 AM, Kenny McCormack wrote: > >> netcat is all you need! >> > > The computer is *ancient*. I can not tell how anything gets on or > off of it. I just cn not take a modem compiles piece of software > and install it on the dinosaur. So what if the computer is ancient. If you cannot tell how anything gets on it or off it, your only option is to open it up, remove the hard disk, get a hard disk caddy which accepts the old ide interface, put the drive into the caddy, an plug into the new system ( usb) and copy the files off the disk. However you seem to imply that it DOES have internet access ( you talk about telnet) so you DO know how to get anything on or off it. > |