[NTLUG:Discuss] Bash Scripting and permissions

[Ed Coates]

Quoting Ed Coates <edcoates at nighthawk.dyndns.org>:

> 
> What he might try also is something that I just learned the other day.  You
> can 
> forgo the whole nfs mount and use tar through ssh to transfer it directly.  
> Here is a small script that I use to tar directly to a remote tape drive, 
> but 
> you can do the same thing to a file in a remote dir.
> 
> for ii in boot etc var home usr/local
> do
> tar --rsh-command=/usr/bin/ssh zcvf nighthawk:/dev/nst0 ${ii}
> done
> 
> This works seemlessly if you have the /root/.ssh/authorized_keys2 file 
> populated with the correct keys.
> 
> You can substitute the tape drive above with your path and filename of the 
> archive.
> 
> Hope that this helps.
> 
> Ed
> 
That's what I get for typing from memory.  :)  This should be the line

tar --rsh-command=/usr/bin/ssh zcvf nighthawk:/dev/nst0 /${ii}

without the / it won't pick up the full path for all the dirs.

Ed


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