[Sunhelp] "Mirroring" two directories over the net. Info please.

[Rob Staab]

The other problem being that tar will bomb out after 2.1 gig. :(

	                   Robert Staab

On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Adrian Petrescu wrote:

> The only problem with tar [...] | tar [...] is that it will take couple of
> hours to complete for the amount of data I have in the directory (> 25 GB
> for a single machine, and there are 3 sets I want to implement).
>
> I'm going to check on samba site. Thank you.
>
> Regards,
> Adrian
>
> ------Original message-------
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> On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 08:03:56PM -0700, Adrian Petrescu wrote:
>
> | Is there any kind of "tool" to help me to create a mirror of a directory
> | (file system) located on an UNIX box to another directory (file system) on
> a
> | different UNIX box over the net ?
>
> The one shot method :
>
>     tar -cf - . | rsh host 'cd /whatever ; tar -xpvvf -'
>
> (replace rsh with ssh if that's what turns your crank.)
>
> If you want to automate it and make it efficient, you may want to look
> into rsync, available at ftp://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/rsync.
>
> Of course there's a dozen other answers to this question, but these
> two will usually do quite nicely.
>
> --
> Doug McLaren, dougmc at frenzy.com
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