Mike, take a look at 'rsync'.
ET 


Michael Havens writes: 

> so wait a second.... could I put fsarchiver on the server and then: 
> 
> tar --ignore-failed-read [/mnt/sda1] -czf - | ssh
> remoteuser@remote.system"tar -xzf - "| "<fsarchiver command>" 
> 
> so the tar command will create a tarball and the the pipe will transfer the
> tarball to the server and extract it wich the second pipe will feed into
> fsarchiver. Is that correct? I have a question: what does the minus sign in
> front of the pipes represent?  Well... I know it represents the name of the
> tar ball but.... is it the name? Could I put anything in that place? 
> 
> and then Enriques command  (tar jcf - /path/to/backup|ssh
> user@otherbox'tar xf -') would compress a tarball and then create a
> non compressed
> archive on the server. 
> 
> You know... I wondered if I could use scp for this. Investigating the man
> page reveals that this is the program I want to use. The text of the
> command that I should issue I think would be (I want to do this from a
> third computer): 
> 
> scp -Cr user1@host1:mnt/sda1 user2@host2:desired/directory/file/name 
> 
> I don't know if I assigned a user1 or a host1 name. How can I find this
> out? If I didn't how would I assign one or change it to a more appropriate
> name? 
> 
> This is fun!
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