There’s a decision to make when you want to write your scripts when it’s time to back things up: use tar or rsync?
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Mbuffer Trickery
Am rather disappointed that mbuffer isn’t shipped in CentOS 7. Easy enough to install, but seriously useful to have updated software in this day in age.
Anyhow, to use mbuffer for a long transfer where an outgoing connection was the only option, I finally found a situation where I wanted to use a fifo.
dmzhost$ mkfifo /tmp/tarfifo
lanhost$ ssh dmzhost "cat /tmp/tarfifo" | mbuffer -P90 -m512M | tar xf -
dmzhost$ tar cf - pub | mbuffer -P90 -m128M > /tmp/tarfifo
And there we have it.