On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 09:56:22AM -0500, Mark Holden wrote: > I'm looking at using "ssh" from the openssh package, to perform secure > backups of large directories from a local server to a remote server as > in the following command executed on the local server. > >tar -cf - ./test_dir | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] dd of=test_dir.tar > Ie., I don't want to first create the tar file on the local system then > use scp to copy it off, as there may not be enough disk storage on the > local system to create the tar file. However, I cannot seem to find any > way, for the above style of transfer using ssh, to do something like the > "-l" option of scp to limit the amount of bandwidth used during the > transfer. > Does anybody know of a way? > Thanks, > Mark
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