Bryan Strawser

Ahhh…

On United Flight #5436 headed back to Taunton, MA, via Chicago and Providence’s T.F. Green Airport. A good vacation, got some sun, saw Cirque de Soleil, family, “big” Texas stuff, bought some yard art in Wimberly, what more does one want?

Tonight, tons of email to go through and finalize budget information prior to tomorrow. The first day back is always a killer. Ugh.

Backing up with tar and ssh. bbum: I found myself in a situation where I really needed to copy some files from a remote OS X box to my local system, but the only access I had was via SSH. Unfortunately, the files all have resource forks that contain pertinent information.

You can probably do this all at once:

  ssh remote.server.com -c 'gnutar cvp file1 file1/rsrc file2 file2/rsrc file3 file3/rsrc' | gnutar -x -v -p --overwrite

Here are some other handy ones:

- back up a remote directory to a local tarfile over a slow link

  ssh remote.server.com -c 'tar -cz /path/to/dir/to/back/up' > backup.tar.gz

- back up a remote directory to a local tarfile over a fast link, where the remote PC is very slow

  ssh remotehost -c 'tar -c /path/to/dir/to/back/up' | gzip > backup.tar.gz

Also rsync is great for this sort of thing:

  rsync -vr remote.server.com:/path/to/dir/to/back/up localbackupdir

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