In order to ssh into a windoze box as user@host, you'll need to set up a SSH server in the windoze box and establish a shell to login into which will honor your commands (which all I have done in the past). Have you considered alcoholism? You may have a better shot... :) As a rule of thumb, you initiate the backup of a windoze box FROM the box itself. Unless you enjoy self-inflicted pain... ET Michael Havens writes: > one more thing.... how would I figure out the user@host name of a windows > computer? > with that I'll be able to backup my brothers computer! > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:42 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > >> 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 - "| "" >> >> 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! >> > > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss