On 12Apr2008 13:15, Mike Wright <mike.wright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > There was a fascinating thread about using ssh to do backups to a remote > host without using a term. Something like: > > "tar jc some_dir | ssh -T user@remote cat > backup" > > Tried the examples and then some --- works great! > > I seem to have fat-fingered the delete key and have lost that email thread > and try for the life of me can't find it again. Get rid of the -T. The "cat >backup" needs to be executed by the shell at the far end, so quote it: tar cf - some_dir | ssh user@remote 'cat >backup' Without the quotes your local shell takes the ">backup" and funnels the data to the _local_ file "backup". So you pump the backup over the net via ssh, and _back_ again, landing locally. -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ The English-speaking world may be divided into those who neither know nor care what a split infinitive is, those who don't know, but care very much, those who know and approve, those who know and condemn, and those who know and distinguish. - H. W. Fowler
