On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Joe Laffey wrote:

> How do some of you back your system up? Do you mount a removeable on the
> SCSI chain and do it that way?
> 
> Is this an ftp thing? Is there a way to pipe a gizball (big tar file
> that's been gzipped) to an ftp server? If there is I could tar and gzip my
> entire system and send to a Mac ftp server for archiving. Can this be
> done? I don't have enough space for two copies. (In other words I can't
> tar it, compress it and THEN ftp it.)

	If you have enough for the original files plus compressed tarfile
	you can always

	tar czf tarfile.tgz <list of files>

	If the remote end was a unix system you could

	tar czf - <list of file> | rsh remotehost 'cat > tarefile.tgz'
		David/absolute

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