On Mon, July 21, 2008 12:14 pm, Mad Unix wrote: > How would you do the > tar zcvf - /usr/local/apache/htdocs | ssh root at 1.2.3.4 > <mailto:root at 1.2.3.4> > "cat > /var/www/html/htdocs.tar.gz" > > with rsync and the to have it in the crontab to run everyday. > > Thanks > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Tom Brown <tom at ng23.net> wrote: > >> >> I want to copy all the following files/folder/subfolders under >>> /usr/local/apache/htdocs to a remote server within this directory >>> /var/www/html/ >>> Am I correct with this command, or far away offff >>> >>> tar zcvf - /usr/local/apache/htdocs | ssh root at 1.2.3.4 <mailto: >>> root at 1.2.3.4> "cat > /var/www/html/htdocs.tar.gz" >>> >>> Thanks >>> >> >> rsync over ssh is good for network copies as it preserves permissions >> nicely if you ask it >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > > > > -- > Your search - madunix - did not match any documents. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > If you want a simple rsync then you can do rsync -av /usr/local/apache/htdocs/ -e root at 1.2.3.4:/var/www/html/htdocs/ If you want to to compress it first then do tar zcvf htdocs.tar.gz /usr/local/apache/htdocs rsync -av /usr/local/apache/htdocs/htdocs.tar.gz -e root at 1.2.3.4:/var/www/html/htdocs/ Bo