backing up a laptop

[Net Llama!]

Greetings,
I've got a bit of a problem on my hands.  I've got a laptop with a 4GB 
drive, that currently has about 1.7GB free (less than half).  It has a 
CDROM(not a burner) & floppy drive.  Thus, the only way I can get files 
on or off the HD, is via the floppy or with scp (ssh).

The HD is partitioned so that hda1 is /boot, hda2 is swap, and hda3 is /

What I want to do is backup the entire disk, however since I don't have 
enough free space on the HD, i can't just create one big tarball.

Does anyone know of a way to pipe the output from tar to scp so that i 
could automatically dump the tarball onto a remote box?  I've been 
pooring through the tar & scp man pages and can't find any way of doing 
this.

If anyone has any alternate solutions, i'd be eager to hear them as well.

thanks!

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