Re: [webmin-l] webmin remote filesystem backup with ftp

[Pat E. <mai...@pa...>]

On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 20:04:14 +0200, Jamie Cameron <jca...@we...>  
wrote:

> The  tricky part is the way the remote transfer comment (ssh, rsh or some
> FTP script) is called by the tar comment. Basically it gets fed all the
> data as input, and so doesn't have much opportunity to split it up.
>
> If I was creating a totally new backup module I'd have more flexibility,
> but since the Filesystem Backup module works by calling the tar and dump
> commands I have to fit in with the way they do things :(
ok, i see.. maybe in a later rewrite you can use perl modules..

until then, let me come up with the another rather strange sounding idea -  
pause the tar prozess (somehow like ctrl-z) transfer stuff to the remote  
server and delete what has been transfered, unpause the tar process (fg ;)  
) and let it do until another amount of data is tared. ok, this idea is  
not wholehearted serious ;)

PAT