tarring over ssh question - pulling from the source to tarfiles

[Norberto Meijome]

Malcolm Kay wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 05:51 pm, Glenn Dawson wrote:
> 
>>At 11:20 PM 11/1/2005, user wrote:
>>

>>>
>>>Is that possible ?  rsync/rdist are not available.  I need to
>>>do this over ssh and tar, as in the above examples.


> 
> To "user"
> 
> From the other end:-
> % ssh whomever at othermachine tar -f /files | cat  > /usr/home/user/file_data2.tar
> 
> Redirection following ssh ( '|' and '>' ) occur at the local 
> end unless within quotes.

ah, nice . thanks for the tip!:)

> 
> Thus:
> % ssh whomever at othermachine tar -f /files "|" cat  ">" /usr/home/user/file_data2.tar
> or:
> % ssh whomever at othermachine "tar -f /files | cat  > /usr/home/user/file_data2.tar"
> would attempt to create the tar archive on the remote machine.
> 
FWIW,

| dd of=/usr/home/user/file_data2.tar

should work as well instead of

| cat > /usr/home/user/file_data2.tar

Beto