tar get on the fly
 

Hi,

Thanks to you great people on this forum I can use

put |"tar cvzf - /" backup.tar.gz

to great a tar file on the fly to a secondary backup machine. I was wondering if there is a way to do the opposite. So I have backup.tar on my ftp site and I want to restore from it. Is there some similar ftp command I can use that will leave me with just the untarred contents of the tar file on my local drive? Thanks very much.


-NifflerX

The following -I think- should extract a tar archive from an ftp site into the current directory, though I have never tried anything like this so I don't know how well it will work.

If you are thinking about trying this out in your root directory, or in any vital part of your filesytem for that matter, I defininately wouldn't recommend it.

Hi,

Thank you for the reply. This seemed to almost work, except that I'm not ftping into an anonymous site. The site is set up to use kerberos tickets. To connect I just ftp <site> and then hit return when it asks for a name (as it's picked the correct one up from the ticket). But with the wget command it's trying to connect as anonymous. Any way around this? Thanks very much.

-NifflerX

I don't know any way of doing this with the standard 'ftp' command, since it cant exactly send files to stdout.
I don't know anything about kerberos tickets either, so I can't help you with that.

I do believe, however, that you can get wget to connect with a username and password by specifying them in the url thus: