On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:22:26 -0600, John Jolet wrote:

> or ssh sourcebox "tar -czvf - /path/to/be/backed/up" | dd  
> of=target.tar.gz

tar outputs to stdout be default, so "-f -" is redundant, as is the use
of dd. All you need is

ssh hostname tar cf /source/path >backup.tar.gz


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Neil Bothwick

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