On Friday 07 October 2005 14:58, Brian Henning wrote: > Hi Y'all, > The subject may be a bad choice of words, but here's what I want to > accomplish, in pseudo-shell code: > > tar -cj /some_path/to_backup > ftp user:[EMAIL PROTECTED] put some_file > > In English, I want the stdout from tar to go across an ftp link as a PUT > to a file on the ftp server... > > Or an SCP transfer (instead of FTP) would be fine too.
ssh 192.168.1.1 "cd /backup; tar -c * .??* -f - " | tar -C /backup -xvf - This transfers a directory (whole) to the remote site Ron -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
