On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 04:03:23PM -0600, Munir Nassar wrote: > On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Jim Streit wrote: > > Tar to a temporary drive? or can I some how tar it to the other box directly? > > sure you can, look at netcat (nc under redhat) > > on the server: > tar -czpvf - | nc -l -p <port> > > and on the client > nc server <port> | tar -czvf - I think you want tar -xzvf on this end. If you have a fast network connection or a slow processor you might want to drop the -z on both ends. BTW, -p is useless on the create side. Nate _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list