Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to copy /* ?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Wednesday 29 December 2010 17:50:08 Alex Schuster wrote:

> What Maciej said. Or, for greater security when the destination is
> outside the LAN:
>
> cd [source] & tar xpf - . | ssh [user]@[host] 'cd [dest] && tar xpf
> -'

That's what I was looking for - a single command I can run on the source 
machine. Thanks Alex.

Just one more thing - what if I only want to store the tar of the source 
directory as an archive on the remote machine? In that case I'd want to 
stream the incoming data into a file instead of untarring it.

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Rgds
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