From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 10 22:23:21 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAF1437B401 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 22:23:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from stjohn.stjohn.ac.th (stjohn.stjohn.ac.th [202.21.144.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 067BD43F3F for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 22:23:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th) Received: from tulip.stjohn.ac.th ([203.151.134.104]) by stjohn.stjohn.ac.th (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA06082; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 12:20:46 +0700 (ICT) Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20030711121916.00a43d80@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: stjohn.stjohn.ac.th:mcrogerm@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 12:22:35 +0700 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Roger Merritt In-Reply-To: <200307110259.h6B2xTe1072040@siralan.org> References: <5.2.0.9.0.20030711085656.00a2e410@127.0.0.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed cc: "Michael L. Squires" Subject: Re: How do you transfer a file. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 05:23:22 -0000 At 09:59 AM 7/11/03, you wrote: > > Any suggestions or recommendations would be welcome. > >NFS mount the volume you want to back up on the second machine, then >run tar. Well, that would certainly work. Right now I've got the remote machine set up as a NFS server and the local machine is a NFS client, but I suppose I could set it up to work both ways, and I've already learned some of the pitfalls of the exports file. -- Roger