One-step tarring/scp (was Re: [ale] hardware to back up a Dell laptop)

Jeff Hubbs hbbs at comcast.net
Fri Jan 11 12:48:26 EST 2008


And if ssh on the target end needs a password...?

Geoffrey wrote:
>
> If I understand what you're asking:
>
> cd to the directory you want to backup.
>
> tar -cvzf - . | ssh id at machine "cat > file.tgz"
>



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