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~(-: