[BusyBox] Newbie Question: File backup

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Sat Apr 16 19:28:19 UTC 2005


On Saturday 16 April 2005 07:33 am, Christoph Elzer wrote:

> To make a long story short: is it still possible for
> me to transfer some or all of that stuff to another
> server? If I log in to the server via SSH I just see
> the BusyBox shell and I really don't know what to do
> with that...

If you've got ssh access, that's all you need.

ssh user at remotesystem "cat /path/to/tarfile.tgz" | tee tarfile.tgz | tar tvz

That'll simultaneously copy and test the file to make sure you're getting it 
ok...

Rob



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