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 > > > 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 cleaner way to do this? I read recently where > > > someone suggested rsync. I am investigating whether that is an option on > > > the Solaris side. > > > > Use tar. > > > > tar czvpf - (some files, or directory) |ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat > > > > >my.tarfile.tgz > Well It sounded great....unfortunately all it does is create the loccal tar > file.
try tar czvpf - (some files, or directory) |ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cat >my.tarfile.tgz' THis shold cause the redirect to be parsed by the remote machine HTH Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
