Remote Backup Using tar Over ssh

[Ken Moffat]

Kurt Wall wrote:

>Hello, list,
>
>I needed to move a directory tree from one machine to another on my 
>local network. Interested in doing so in as few steps as possible,
>I found a tar over ssh invocation worked quite handily:
>
>tar cf - /old_web | ssh root at luther tar xf - /var/www/htdocs/old
>
>This creates  a tar archive of /old_web, sending the created
>output to stdout. The output is piped to the stdin of a tar 
>command invoked over ssh, which deposits the output into
>/var/www/htdocs/old on the destination machine (luther).
>
>I'm sure there are more elegant ways to do this, but IWFM.
>
>As always, YMMV and if it breaks, you get to keep both pieces.
>
>Kurt
>  
>
Clever.
Question. Would
rsync -e ssh -avz  /old_web  luther:/var/www/htdocs/old/
be basically the same?

-- 
ken