[ILUG] piping tar output over ftp

[Laur Ivan]

On Tuesday 13 July 2004 09:25, John P. Looney wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 09:18:21AM +0100, Ivan Kelly mentioned:
> > i have a backup machine i only have ftp access to. i want to backup a lot
> > of data. i can't tar it to a local file and then upload because i dont
> > have enough space locally. is there any way i could pipe the output of
> > tar to the remote server over ftp?
>
>  Not really. No SSH access to the machine?
>
>  Would something like "put -R localdir" work from ncftp ? That'll
> recursively put up a whole directory tree...
>
> John

would this help?

http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Training/InterUnix/files/pipes.html

Cheers,

L