Re: [CentOS] ftp issue in Centos 5.3

Dave Stevens wrote:

I manage a small server that I back up weekly. I do this by making a tarball of relevant files then transferring it over the local subnet to my station (Fedora 11), whereupon I burn it to DVD. There is no optical burner on the server. The tarball amounts to a bit under 5 gigs. Recently I've started getting an error telling me to try PASV or PORT first. I use the gFTP client on my machine and as far as I know there is no option in this program to use either option either locally or remotely (on the server.)

Any ideas on this one?

I'd probably run the tar via ssh and collect the output directly where you want it like:

ssh -l root server 'cd /path/to/start && tar -czf - . ' >/path/to/tarfile.tgz