Maybe the simplest usage: tar cfz - /somedir | ssh somehost "dd of=/somefile.tgz"
John On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:42:17AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 09:28:56PM -0700, Neko wrote: > > > since my partitions have 16% free on all systems, i cant tarball the > > drive sent it to target machine and uncompress, > > Tarball it up, pipe the output somewhere, eg via ssh > > (disclaimer: untested; concept only) > > [tar commands, to stdout] | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "cat - [tar commands to > untar the ball] or > tarball.tgz > > Or use rsync? > > Doug.
