[Sheflug] backups (again!)

[matt fairtlough <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Q1: has anyone got reoback to work (it doesn't seem that useful anyway, 
but I couldn't get anything sensible out of it)

Q2: is there any way to do a network backup via ftp or telnet (yes, I 
know I should use ssh.  As far as I can tell, the university gateway 
does not support it, and I need to pass through it) that involves 
creating compressed tar files on-the-fly?   And preferably automated...

I know ftp has a limited amount of support for handling pipes, but it 
seems I can't pipe the output of
tar -c <directory> into it; also I do not know if telnet supports file 
transfers [well, I can ftp via telnet, but that doesn't seem any more 
useful than ftp itself]

thanks in advance for any pointers,

Matt

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