Can tar be piped through rsync?

prosolutions at gmx.net prosolutions at gmx.net
Mon Mar 22 17:28:58 GMT 2004


I am trying to work out a backup solution whereby an entire Linux drive can
be rsynced to a mounted external firewire/usb hard drive that has a vfat
filesystem on it.

To preserve ownership and permissions it is necessary to do something like 
tar -cf dir1.tar dir1/ | rsync /win/rsync 

however this command does not work.  Does anyone know if it is even possible
to do such a thing?  Also, if it is possible, will it be possible to use
rsync again to incrementally update dir1.tar on the vfat filesystem?





--
Daniel

-- 
+++ NEU bei GMX und erstmalig in Deutschland: TÜV-geprüfter Virenschutz +++
100% Virenerkennung nach Wildlist. Infos: http://www.gmx.net/virenschutz



More information about the rsync mailing list