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

[Geoffrey]

Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> Bob Toxen wrote:
>> 1. If it supports Ethernet, back up over your LAN.  You could use tar to
>>    stdout piped to ssh to cp stdin over the network.
> I've been doing this thing where I first tar up a machine's filesystem 
> and scp off the file to somewhere.  I'd love to be able to do that in 
> one action such that I don't have to write to any disk as an 
> intermediate step.  What would that look like?

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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Until later, Geoffrey

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