Re: [CentOS] remote tar via ssh

On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 03:22:02PM -0400, Von Landfried wrote:

I copied this from http://happygiraffe.net/copy-net which is a nice

tar -cf - /some/file | ssh host.name tar -xf - -C /some/place/cool

Do not use "/some/file" - Although GNUtar (the version on CentOS) will strip off the leading / on extraction, it's a bad habit to get into and _will_ bite you in the foot if you ever use a different version of tar.

Also, depending, a "p" flag on extraction might be useful.

Personally I also "cd" rather than -C on extraction. So

cd /source/directory tar cf - . | ssh RemoteHost "cd /dest/directory && tar xfp - "