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- From: dws@cseg03.uark.edu (David W. Summers)
- Subject: Re: looking for useful TCP program
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 01:38:32 GMT
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- row@cs.bham.ac.uk (Reuben O Wells) writes:
-
- >Hi all,
- > [ deleted ]
- >Why ? I don't really want to run NFS and want to be able to do remote
- >backups, I do have the TCP/IP suite installed and would like to use
- >it! For example:
- >
- >on my local machine ...
- >tar -cvf / - | senddata <hostname> <port>
- >
- >on the remote machine ...
- >recdata <port> > /dev/nrst8
- >
- >I am sure this must have been done before, if anyone knows of any
- >such programs please let me know.
- >
- >Thanks,
- >
- >Reuben Wells
- >--
- >row@cs.bham.ac.uk Tel: (+44) 21 449 9142
-
- You might try the GNU TAR program. At least on SunOS it is capable of
- doing a remote tar to a device on another machine. That seems to be
- what you want.
-
- Admittedly, I haven't tried in on LINUX yet, but maybe it would work, and
- if it didn't maybe we could figure out why and fix it.
-
- - David Summers
- (dws@engr.uark.edu)
-
- --
- "Never under-estimate the bandwidth of a station-wagon
- David Summers full of tapes, hurtling down the highway."
- dws@engr.uark.edu - Tanenbaum, "Computer Networks"
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