On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Maciej Grela <maciej.gr...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2010/12/29 Peter Humphrey <pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org>: >> On Monday 27 December 2010 15:47:19 Dale wrote: >> >>> Some people do use tar especially if it is over a network or >>> something like that. I don't have the command tho since I never >>> used it. >> >> Just for completeness: >> >> (cd [source] && tar cpf - . | (cd [dest] && tar xpf - ) ) >> >> (I think). >> >> Would someone here please tell me what the rhs should be if the >> destination is at the other end of a network link? > > On the destination > > r...@richese:~# nc -l 5555 | tar -xjv > tar: Rozmiar rekordu = 8 bloków > Pobrane/ > Pobrane/Vol 28_16.pdf > Pobrane/EPWA-APP2.flac > Pobrane/EPWA-APP1.flac > r...@richese:~# > > On the source: > > ther...@richese:~$ tar -cjv Pobrane/ | nc localhost 5555 > Pobrane/ > Pobrane/Vol 28_16.pdf > Pobrane/EPWA-APP2.flac > Pobrane/EPWA-APP1.flac > ther...@richese:~$ > > Voila !
I copied several TB over network this way (netcat + tar), when I had no possibility of physically copying data to disks (or removing disks to copy to target machine). It worked perfectly and with a gigabit network link between the two machines it was not so long of a job. :)
