SCO Unix - Capture output from tar that is piped through FTP

BaDm00n · 04-08-2010, 05:51 PM

Greetings,.
Long time listener, first time caller

For reasons beyond my control, i am backing this box up via tar, piping it through ftp.

current script is this.

ftp -nv someserver.somedomain.local <<EOF
user ftpuser ftppass
binary
put "| tar cvf - /somedir/aa " aa.tar
put "| tar cvf - /somedir/ab " ab.tar
put "| tar cvf - /somedir/ac " ac.tar
bye
EOF

and this works great as is.
However, i need to be able to log the tar output so i can email it to the appropriate individuals.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

rweaver · 04-09-2010, 11:40 AM

What do you mean by 'log the tar output'?

BaDm00n · 04-10-2010, 01:12 PM

typically, using the -v option and grabbing output and re-directing it to a file, similar to:

tar -zcvpf /u/somedir /u/backup/somedir.tar.gz > /LOG/logfile

i can grab that output and see what files were backed, and errors (if any).

I have tried every iteration of pipe, tee, or redirect that i can think of, but i just cant seem to get a script that will tar directories through an ftp pipe, and give me a log of files backed up and errors.