On Monday 28 October 2002 05:59 pm, you is done writ:
> I have a server that has a tape drive in it, and I'd like to pull
> data from the others servers onto this one for backup. What I'd like
> to do is tar/gzip all the necessary data from these other servers,
> once done, transfer them to the backup server and then have a
<sniop>
> My question is, how to get the data from all these servers onto
> the backup one. Do I want to use scp for that? My experience has
> shown me that scp takes about 3 times longer to transfer a file than
> ftp, or rcp. Should I just use rcp for this? Or do people write ftp
> scripts to get information across?
$ rsh -l <username> <hostname> "tar -czvf - <files_to_tar>" | \
tar cvf /dev/mt -
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