# Joshua Lewis: > I have a FreeBSD 5.4 system and I have no way to back up the data. I don't > have a burner and I can't get one anytime soon. I do however have a burner > on my wifes G4 laptop. I have enabled SSH on the FreeBSD system and I can > SSH into the box from the Mac, However I do not know how to copy the files I > need to back up from the FreeBSD system to the Mac.
With scp. From your mac type: $ scp -r [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/remote/path /local/path which copies the directory /remote/path on the BSD machine to /local/path on the mac. There are also graphical frontends for this, e.g. Fugu <URL:http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/fugu/>. If you need to do this frequently (and your wife doesn't mind keeping your files on her book) it's probably better to use rsync, i.e. $ rsync -vatz --delete [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/remote/path /local/path (see the man page for details). HTH, Mario _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"