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: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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 >> >> >> >> -- >> Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> >> >> !DSPAM:415b7ba7169012059180723! >> >> > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFBW4BI7s9z/XlyUyARAli8AJ99kS9g9MTITA38hbaRci+tg/qlHgCeMlFj > rYnf46SpMLfwZIRSKnUGL0Y= > =nWRh > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
