From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PY2bC-0008Fw-Pm for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:26:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 44C4CE0453; Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:24:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from postler.lichtfels.com (postler.lichtfels.com [78.46.92.195]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0425FE0453 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:24:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by postler.lichtfels.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C3D91463A for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:27:00 +0100 (CET) Received: from postler.lichtfels.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (postler.lichtfels.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with LMTP id 03742-04 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:26:58 +0100 (CET) Received: from [172.32.99.12] (mail.oops.co.at [213.129.238.225]) by postler.lichtfels.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id E869D13375 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:26:57 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4D1B9912.8010505@xunil.at> Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:24:50 +0100 From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" Organization: oops! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101226 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.7 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to copy /* ? References: <201012291830.03500.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <201012291941.00611.wonko@wonkology.org> <201012291916.17450.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201012291916.17450.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.2a X-Archives-Salt: 19e39d6b-cf23-449e-920a-3646a577f8c0 X-Archives-Hash: 785efaea6d43aab859e91cbb6c6c7e90 Am 29.12.2010 20:16, schrieb Mick: >>>> cd [source] & tar xpf - . | ssh [user]@[host] 'cd [dest] && tar xpf >>>> -' >>> >>> That's what I was looking for - a single command I can run on the source >>> machine. Thanks Alex. >>> >>> Just one more thing - what if I only want to store the tar of the source >>> directory as an archive on the remote machine? I can't resist: my bookmark for these issues is old, but working for me: http://ultra.ap.krakow.pl/~bar/DOC/ssh_backup.html