Re: [gentoo-user] ssh and tar combined?

[Neil Bothwick]

On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 09:44:09 -0600, John Jolet wrote:

> > tar outputs to stdout be default, so "-f -" is redundant, as is the
> > use
> > of dd. All you need is
> >
> > ssh hostname tar cf /source/path >backup.tar.gz
> >
> hmm, I'm not sure this behavior is consistent across all versions of
> tar and all versions of ssh.

The part about stdout being the default is consistent, -f overrides the
default. To maintain consistency across ssh versions, it may be safer to
use

ssh >backup.tar.gz hostname "tar cf /source/path"


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