saving newly created files using ftp on a network

linuxhippy · 05-05-2005, 03:43 PM

I want to make a huge compressed backup file of my Slack 10 harddrive onto a networked drive. I have ftp setup right now for transferring files. Can I use ftp as the location to save a newly created file?

buaku · 05-05-2005, 08:13 PM

Do you mean you wanna ftp it as you're zipping it or zip it then ftp it or what?

I'm not sure if you can zip it across an ftp. Samba might be a better way to go.

egag · 05-05-2005, 08:46 PM

maybe try nfs.
there were some threads about that last few weeks.

i don't know if you can send a file through ftp while it's being made.

egag

nnsg · 05-06-2005, 01:02 AM

Don't know how to do it under CLI, but I think you can create archive with KDE app (e.g. ark) and save it using kio ftp slave.

Or in CLI, you can try something like this with ssh:

Code:

tar cvf - /somedir | gzip -c -9 | ssh somebody@somewhere.com cat ">" ~/archive.tar.gz

This will archive /somedir as archive.tar.gz, and directly save it as archive.tar.gz on somewhere.com under somebody's home directory. (Of course you have to set up sshd on server first)

linuxhippy · 05-06-2005, 03:49 AM

nnsg, that looks like what I would like to do (create a tarball and save it somewhere else using ftp). Do I need to be root to tar an entire Linux drive?

gbonvehi · 05-06-2005, 03:54 AM

Yes linuxhippy, there are some files that are only readeable by root (like /var/log/syslog), you could also skip those files if they aren't important for you.

A example would be (for FTP, the ssh solution would be better but requieres you to have a ssh server):

Code:

tar cf - /somedir | gzip -c -9 | cat > ~/archive.tar.gz ; lftp ftp://yoursite -c put archive.tar.gz ; rm archive.tar.gz