From: duty@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU (Duty Programmer) Subject: Re: Tar via kermit? - and sz/rz backups: what happened? Date: 24 Feb 1993 11:51:10 +1100
In article <1mddd1INNq4u@uwm.edu> rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar) writes:
> kermit -k | tar -xzvf -
> (kermit's "-k" option is for receiving to stdout)
... this may be a little premature of me, as i haven't sifted through the
sources yet, but for a while now i've been wondering about doing this:
% cd / ; tar cf - | sz -vv
i.e. using zmodem protocol to backup my hard disk using the phone
line. It seems that some version of sz/rz supports this, sending a
file with a name like sz.$PID (i have a man page that describes this,
but it's not in front of me now). The man page for szrz9202 does not
list this feature (and it doesn't work :-) ), but otherwise appears to
be identical to the other man page that i have.
As i said, i haven't gone through the sources yet (and it should be fairly
easy to implement), but does anyone out there know what the story is ?
Imagine copying entire directory trees with:
unix % tar cf - . | sz
linux% rz - | tar xf -
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