Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 17:23 +0000, Francesco Riosa wrote:
> Jeff wrote:
> > Hey guys.
> >
> > I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the hard drive
> > to store a tar file. I'd like to pipe a tar through ssh, but not sure
> > what the command would be. Something to the effect of:
> >
> > # cat /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com 'tar data.info.gz'
> >
> > So that, the data is actually being sent over ssh, and then archived on
> > the destination machine.
> >
> tar -zcf - /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com "( cat > data.info.gz  )"
>

There's another way. This assumes your originating server's CPU is
slow/precious and you have a 16 way node on a backup server (HAHA!!)

tar cf - /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com "gzip -c >
filename.tar.gz"

But you transfer the stream uncompressed, so more bits get transferred.




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