Backing up multiple user data

[Luke Davis]

Greg, if you don't need encryption, you could use netcat on both ends.

# Client
tar --bzip2 -cf - files-to-backup | nc server 5555

# Server
nc -l -p 5555 -e 'dd of=path/to/backup/file.tbz'

Of course, this has absolutely no security!  Look at ssh or rsh for that.


On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Gregory Nowak wrote:

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> Just to add to this, I did see your post Janina about rmt, but reading
> the man page for rmt seems to indicate that it is used to remotely
> control tape drives, there is no mention of writing to a file on the
> hard disk.
>
> Yes, I also know that ssh is an option, but since I wouldn't be using
> this outside of my LAN, the encryption performed by ssh would be a
> waist of bandwidth and cpu cycles that I could do without. Thanks.
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 10:20:49PM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 09:06:00PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
>>>    tar has facilities to read or write tar files automatically from
>>> other machines over the network; see the tar (1) manual page for
>>> details.)
>>>
>>
>> Yes, interested by your earlier post on this, I did just what this
>> excerpt suggests, and I did read through the entire man page. However,
>> while the hostname:f flag is mentioned, there is no mention of what
>> should be done on the other machine to listen for a connection from
>> tar.
>>
>> The man page does mention that the tar info page is the definitive
>> source, but  I could never figure out how to navigate from node to
>> node in info pages.
>>
>> Greg
>>
>>
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