Dave Stevens wrote:
> I manage a small server that I back up weekly. I do this by making a
> tarball of relevant files then transferring it over the local subnet
> to my station (Fedora 11), whereupon I burn it to DVD. There is no
> optical burner on the server. The tarball amounts to a bit under 5
> gigs. Recently I've started getting an error telling me to try PASV or
> PORT first. I use the gFTP client on my machine and as far as I know
> there is no option in this program to use either option either locally
> or remotely (on the server.)
>
> Any ideas on this one?
I'd probably run the tar via ssh and collect the output directly where you want
it like:
ssh -l root server 'cd /path/to/start && tar -czf - . ' >/path/to/tarfile.tgz
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Les Mikesell
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