[plug] backing up and restoring hard drive image

[Jason]

good call.

I know I can use split to create 30 files at 2gb each and then store them on the xbox, but the concern I have is piping the data via sftp.  how would 
sftp accept the data being piped to it and then transfer thati nto a file ..

On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 08:12:48AM +0800, Craig Foster wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au 
> > [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On Behalf Of Jason
> > Sent: Wednesday, 6 September 2006 8:01 AM
> > To: plug at plug.org.au
> > Subject: Re: [plug] backing up and restoring hard drive image
> > 
> <snip
> > 
> > I do have a modified xbox with enough space on it running 
> > xbox media centre with it's inbuilt filezilla ftp server, and 
> > was wondering if I could use sftp instead of ssh?
> > 
> <snip>
> > 
> > again, thanks for the assistance.
> > 
> > jason.
> 
> Beware the 42 character filename limit on a xbox, and a 4GB file size
> limit as well...
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBMC
> 
> CraigF.
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