[CLUE-Tech] tar question

[Mike Staver]

Wow - you can pipe something like that to ssh and have it run those
commands for you?  That is very, very cool.... I tried it, and it works
*perfectly* for what I need.  Beats the heck out of tar'n up files, and
ftping them around.  Thanks Todd!

"Todd A. Gibson" wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 02:56:29PM -0700, Mike Staver wrote:
> > Right - but I guess I was too vague with that - I'm doing this for *all*
> > users with folders in the /home directory, and yes, the password files
> > on both servers are exactly the same.
> >
> How about (as root):
> 1) cd into base directory of tree you want to transfer:
> 2) type:
>   tar cf - * | ssh root at othermachine "(cd todir; tar xvpBf -)"
> 
> -TAG
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