Re: [tlug] Remote Backups and Command Line Stuff

[Scott VanDusen <Scott_VanDusen@example.com>]

Hi,

Both rsync and tar over ssh are great tools for automated backups. Here is a good article on how to set up automated backups using tar and ssh:

 http://madpenguin.org/Article1505.html

If you don't want to futz with setting up an automated backup using ssh keys and cron, and instead just do a one-off backup, it's pretty simple: 

#!/bin/bash
 
 # this tars up joe's home directory into myhome.tar.gz tarball. 
 /bin/tar -zcpf /home/joe/myhome.tar.gz /home/joe
 
 # This sends the tarball to the remote directory
 cat /home/joe/myhome.tar.gz |ssh remotemachine "cd backup; cat > backup.tar.gz"

(taken from the above article)

Cheers,

Scott VanDusen

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