No file servers available. :( William F. Day wrote: > what about mounting a share (NFS or Samba) and making the tarbal on it? > > Bill Day > > Linux 2.2.20-1tr i586 > 8:10pm up 7 days, 19:24, 2 users, load average: 0.01, 0.00, 0.00 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Net Llama! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 9:34 PM > Subject: backing up a laptop > > > >>Greetings, >>I've got a bit of a problem on my hands. I've got a laptop with a 4GB >>drive, that currently has about 1.7GB free (less than half). It has a >>CDROM(not a burner) & floppy drive. Thus, the only way I can get files >>on or off the HD, is via the floppy or with scp (ssh). >> >>The HD is partitioned so that hda1 is /boot, hda2 is swap, and hda3 is / >> >>What I want to do is backup the entire disk, however since I don't have >>enough free space on the HD, i can't just create one big tarball. >> >>Does anyone know of a way to pipe the output from tar to scp so that i >>could automatically dump the tarball onto a remote box? I've been >>pooring through the tar & scp man pages and can't find any way of doing >>this. >> >>If anyone has any alternate solutions, i'd be eager to hear them as well. >> >>thanks!
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