Re: cpio files to remote server

From: Kevin Fleming (kevintickle_at_gmail.com)
Date: 09/21/05

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    "John DuBois" <spcecdt@armory.com> wrote in message
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    > In article <1127247752.536290.93790@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
    > Kevin Fleming <kevintickle@gmail.com> wrote:
    >>Hey Everybody,
    >>
    >>This is what I'm starting with to backup some data from one box to
    >>another:
    >>find /dir/data -depth -print |cpio -o |rcmd backup "cpio -ivdum"
    >>
    >>The job copies some data over every night. Right now, both servers are
    >>on the same LAN, but the backup server is going to be moved offsite,
    >>with a slower connection. Is there a way that I can add something like
    >>gzip into the command to compress the data before sending it to the
    >>remote server?
    >
    > Sure. Try:
    >
    > find /dir/data -depth -print |cpio -o | gzip |rcmd backup "gunzip |
    > cpio -ivdum"
    >
    > John
    > --
    > John DuBois spcecdt@armory.com KC6QKZ/AE
    > http://www.armory.com/~spcecdt/

    Thanks John, that works...any ideas on how to see the amount of data
    that
    was actually transmitted? I suppose I could just gzip all of the data
    to a
    file just on its own so I'd know what the compression is like, but
    thought
    someone might have a slicker way of doing it.

    "Ian Wilson" <scobloke2@infotop.co.uk> wrote in message
    news:<dgrb0j$jf7$1@nwrdmz02.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com>...

    > In my experience, rsync will be far more efficient since it only

    > transmits the changed parts of changed files.

    Also, thanks to JP Radley and Ian Wilson for their rsync
    suggestions...I'll
    have to look into that.

    Thanks,
    Kevin Fleming

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