On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 00:01, Matthew Crocker wrote: > If you need to copy a bunch of stuff *and* keep your permissions you > can do something like > > > tar czf - /files/I/want/to/back/up/* | ssh -l root -c "(cd > /new/location/for/files && tar -xf - )" > > Basically you are creating a tar file and outputting it to STDOUT which > is piped to STDIN of an ssh session which sends it to STDIN of a tar > process running on the other machine. Can you explain why this doesn't work for me?? tar -lcf - . | ssh -l root x.x.x.x "tar -xvpf - -C /some/area" tar: Bad Option: -xf. Usage: tar cmd [options] file1 ... filen Use tar -help and tar -xhelp to get a list of valid cmds and options. Use tar H=help to get a list of valid archive header formats. Use tar diffopts=help to get a list of valid diff options. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 18:18:00 up 7:25, 8 users, load average: 3.09, 2.95, 2.48
