Re: Solaris<->RH8 Backup

2003-07-22 Thread System Administrator
Well I tried that and ti didn't work either BUT... all of this did give me enough understanding to derive the correct combination. ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] tar -cf - $REMOTEDIRECTORY |cat >$LOCALDIRECTORY/$REMOTEHOSTNAME/$TARFILENAME Thanks for the help On Tuesday 22 July 2003 15:27, Samuel F

Re: Solaris<->RH8 Backup

2003-07-22 Thread Samuel Flory
System Administrator wrote: 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) Wh

Re: Solaris<->RH8 Backup

2003-07-22 Thread Bret Hughes
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 19:08, System Administrator wrote: > 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

Re: Solaris<->RH8 Backup

2003-07-21 Thread System Administrator
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 fi

Solaris<->RH8 Backup

2003-07-21 Thread System Administrator
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 clea

Re: Solaris<->RH8 Backup

2003-07-21 Thread Samuel Flory
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.

Solaris<->RH8 Backup

2003-07-21 Thread System Administrator
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 clean

Solaris<->RH8 Backup

2003-07-21 Thread System Administrator
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