warner@intellistor.com (Dave Warner) (02/19/91)
I would appreciate pointers to generic programs to package up the contents of a PC's hard disk and 'put' the result to a UNIX system via ftp. A corresponding capability to restore is, of course, also necessary. I say 'generic' because we have a variety of ftp packages and ethernet cards and I would like a common program to distribute to people. Ideally someone has something like 'pkzip | ftp' -- I know this won't quite work as is, but you get the idea. Thanks for your time, Dave -- _____________________________________________________________________ | Dave Warner | e-mail address: warner@intellistor.com | | Intellistor, Inc. | USmail address: 2402 Clover Basin Dr. | | (303)682-6555 | Longmont, CO 80503 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------
fks@vaxeline.COM (Frances Selkirk) (02/21/91)
What you want is a tar program with compression. Tar programs are included with our PC/TCP and Sun's Lifeline (a PC-NFS option package). (I don't know whether or not tar is implemented in Beame & Whiteside's package, or in Wollongong's, or in...) I don't know whether or not Sun's tar can compress files - ours does. When writing to a tape, our tar uses rsh or rexec to execute mt on the remote system, but it can also write to a file on the remote machine. I imagine other implementations are similar. -- Frances Kirk Selkirk info@ftp.com (617) 246-0900 FTP Software, Inc. 26 Princess Street, Wakefield, MA 01880
peter@gongolo.SUBLINK.org (Peter Komanns) (02/28/91)
In article <1991Feb19.122449.7695@intellistor.com>, warner@intellistor.com (Dave Warner) writes: > I would appreciate pointers to generic programs to package up the contents > of a PC's hard disk and 'put' the result to a UNIX system via ftp. A > corresponding capability to restore is, of course, also necessary. > I say 'generic' because we have a variety of ftp packages and ethernet > cards and I would like a common program to distribute to people. We have tried something like you are searching for using the FTP/TCP program from FTP software. It has a command called 'tar' that performs a tar command to/from a remote magnetic media based on a UNIX machine on the network, of course connected via TCP/IP. It works VERY fine and it is very usefull. **************************************************************************** Peter Komanns - SINDATA srl - Vimercate - ITALY Phone (voice) +39,39,6083733 (fax)+39,39,60,83,957 SUBLINK:peter@cucciolo BANG:..!yachaya!gongolo!cucciolo!peter **************************************************************************** -- **************************************************************************** Peter Komanns - SINDATA srl - Vimercate - ITALY Phone (voice) +39,39,6083733 (fax)+39,39,60,83,957 SUBLINK:peter@cucciolo BANG:..!yachaya!gongolo!cucciolo!peter ****************************************************************************