On Monday 21 July 2003 18:25, Samuel Flory wrote: > System Administrator wrote: > >I need to backup a Solaris 8 system (actually parts therein) to a RH8 box. > > I am currently doing that using a simple scp (secure copy) script. The > > RH8 filesystem is ext3. > > > >Question 1) When I copy the files over (all normal files), they occupy 2-3 > >times the space. Why? > > > >Question 2) is there a cleaner way to do this? I read recently where > > someone suggested rsync. I am investigating whether that is an option on > > the Solaris side. > > Use tar. > > tar czvpf - (some files, or directory) |ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat > > >my.tarfile.tgz Well It sounded great....unfortunately all it does is create the loccal tar file.
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