Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 21:18:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Vince Hoffman <jhary@unsane.co.uk> To: Gregor Mosheh <stigmata_blackangel@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Secure file transfers Message-ID: <20050210210100.G11751@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20050210203804.78804.qmail@web53802.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050210203804.78804.qmail@web53802.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Gregor Mosheh wrote: > > I had a similar, perhaps related question. I'm making > backups via tar to a SMB server, but I would rather > use sftp/scp for it (the NAS supports both SMB and > scp/sftp). > > I don't have enough disk space to make the backup to a > tarchive and then scp that tarchive. Is there a way to > make scp/sftp read from a pipe or stdin, rather than > specific filenames? The docs haven't mentioned it, but > since the subject came up I thought it worth asking... > Hmm the other way round is easy enough, scp jhary@10.0.0.10:foo.tar.gz /dev/stdout | tar -ztf - and either way with full ssh tar -zcf - * |ssh jhary@10.0.0.10 "cat > foo.tar.gz" cat foo.tar.gz |ssh jhary:10.0.0.1 "tar -zxf -" I hope some of this might help as i cant think of a way to do as you want. Vince > > --- Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> > wrote: > >> Danie Du Toit writes: >> >>> Which packages are available to upload /download >> large dumpfiles in a >>> secure fashion (e.g. using SSL). The customer >> should not need any >>> secure client installed on his PC. >> >> Anything that is secure will require appropriate >> software at both ends >> of the transfer, and thus will require some sort of >> security-aware >> client on the customer's PC. >> >> SFTP provides secure file transfers. I use SecureFX >> on my client >> machine, and the standard SFTP server on the FreeBSD >> server. >> >> -- >> Anthony >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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