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Running Tar over SSH

Running tar over ssh is straightforward:

% tar czvf - /home/anl | ssh desthost "cat > home.tar.gz"

Other ideas:

% tar -cf - /u01 | ssh otherhost "bzip2 -c > /u1/u01-backup.tbz"
% tar -cf - /dir | ssh otherhost "cd /newbasedir ; tar -xpf -"

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