[Wylug-help] Scriptable FTP, creating remote archives

[James Holden]

On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 12:26 +0000, John Hodrien wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Dec 2011, John Hodrien wrote:
> 
> tar cz /path/to/snapshot | lftp -c "put /dev/stdin -o backup.tar.gz" \
>                                  -u user,pass dumpserver.nixcraft.in
> 

Ah, this looks doable. I specifically didn't want the archive to hit the
local disk first because it'll be about 15GB.

I've heard something about 2GB limit with FTP. I suspect this will be
implementation specific, it sounds Windowsey.

I'll give this a go, cheers.

On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 13:05 +0000, Smylers wrote:
> Something along those lines was my first thought too, but when I
> discovered lftp doesn't treat a filename of - as meaning stdin I gave
> up (and reached for Perl instead).

Yes, me too.

James

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