On Sep 6, 1997, at 12:04, R. Chris Ross wrote: > What I was looking at was simply to NFS mount a large server and > use something like cpio to transfer the whole thing over there. If each > file could be gzipped in the process of transfering them it would be > helpfull. Does this sound like a reasonable approach and is there a more > simple means of doing this.
I have seen NFS fail when copying very big files through the Ethernet. I think I would rather use rcp; I'm not sure whether you can use pipes with it, but you might try: machine1 $ (cd /path/to/backup; tar zcf - .) | rcp machine2:/safe/path > Chris Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Gonzalo A. Diethelm G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
