Remote Backup Using tar Over ssh

[Kurt Wall]

On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 09:13:14PM -0400, Bruce Marshall took 33 lines to write:
> On Sunday 07 August 2005 06:12 pm, 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
> 
> Maybe rsync?
> 
> rsync -auvzr  -e ssh  /old_web/   luther:/var/www/htdocs/old/
> 
> Note the trailing slashes.    Required.

Which is the reasons rsync annoys me, despite its utility.

> Also good for incremental updates  by adding  --delete

Good point. I won't be doing any updates of this particular tree.

Kurt
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