Like another fellow mentioned, if you are really concerned about only sending X amount of data in one shot, tar up the information, but split the data into acceptable sized chunks. 'man tar' or 'info tar' should give you more info than you ever want ;) Then compress the chunks w/ either gzip or bzip2 w/ the compression turned all the way up, and then transfer them w/ the method of your choice; sftp or rsync over ssh might be good since you have ssh access on both boxes.
Another somewhat simpler option might be to use ftp (if you have it availabe, and if it is workable i.e. data isn't *that* sensitive) is to use a client like lftp that has a 'mirror' command from your local machine. When you get home, fire up the client, log on to the same directory every time using a bookmark, and mirror the directory. Cntrl-C to cancel when you leave in the morning, and start again when you get home that night. The client will take care of most of the rest for you. Other options could include wget (not sure about connecting via ssh, but ftp would work) which has a metric butt-ton of options and is very scriptable, to simply running a script out of cron every night, that calls rsync, and runs until either its done, or until a give time, and exits. On that note, you might try checking freshmeat.net and see if there isn't already a quick shell or perl script that does something just like that. HTH, nuk -- I know more than enough *nix to do some very destructive things, and not nearly enough to do very many useful things. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list