Try rsync, that way you only transfer what is not on the backup machine and it will resume in the case of an interruption without having to start from scratch. You can run an rsync daemon and avoid the encryption overhead in a trusted environment, or run it over ssh for security.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:redhat-list-admin@;redhat.com] On Behalf Of Ashley M. Kirchner Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 12:46 PM To: Red Hat Mailing List Subject: Network file transfers I have a server that has a tape drive in it, and I'd like to pull data from the others servers onto this one for backup. What I'd like to do is tar/gzip all the necessary data from these other servers, once done, transfer them to the backup server and then have a nightly backup script dump everything to tape (this will happen over the course of about two hours, with the actual backup starting at the end of those two hours.) My question is, how to get the data from all these servers onto the backup one. Do I want to use scp for that? My experience has shown me that scp takes about 3 times longer to transfer a file than ftp, or rcp. Should I just use rcp for this? Or do people write ftp scripts to get information across? I don't want to setup anything onto these other servers (like Amanda daemons or whatever), I need to use what's there, and not add more stuff - these are all stripped down, dedicated machines. -- W | I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere. +-------------------------------------------------------------------- Ashley M. Kirchner <mailto:ashley@;pcraft.com> . 303.442.6410 x130 IT Director / SysAdmin / WebSmith . 800.441.3873 x130 Photo Craft Laboratories, Inc. . 3550 Arapahoe Ave. #6 http://www.pcraft.com ..... . . . Boulder, CO 80303, U.S.A. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
