Re: [cobalt-users] The big backup question (Raq)

[Kirk VandenBerghe <kirk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Interesting. Do you have this running on a RaQ2/Mips?

Kirk out.

At 03:47 PM 1/27/00 -0600, you wrote:
> That's exactly what the utility
> FTPBACKUP does. It's incredible. I signed up for an outside provider
> hosting package (500M) simply as a safe backup location. 
>
> Get it here:
> http://filewatcher.org/sec/ftpbackup/int_year.html
>
> We have lines such as this one in our cron to run automatically (this one handles the /home directory): 
>
> ---------- 
> (all one line) 
> 10 5 * * 0-5 /bin/tar cfp - /home | gzip | /usr/local/bin/ftpbackup -h 216.71.xxx.xx -u anonymous -p myname@xxxxxxxxx -d /incoming -b bkp-home-daily.tar.gz 
> ----------- 
>
> Brian 
> DJ.NET 
>
> >Is there a way to tar and simultaneously FTP to another 
> >server? I can't tar all my files first and then download 
> >because the big tar file will exceed the storage capacity 
> >of my hard drive if I'm more than 50% full. 
>
>
>
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> | Brian Kane       brian@xxxxxx | 
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