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Tar and Restore Files Over SSH

This will be pretty obvious to seasoned *nix admins but it’s possible to tar/gz/bzip files over an ssh connection onto a remote file system. Read on to find out how…

Simply start out within an ssh session on the machine youre sending data FROM:


tar cjvf - /home | ssh root@backup.pixelchaos.net "cat > /backup/home.tar.bz2"

You can also use dd (or any other data/pipe handling commands):


tar cjvf - /home | ssh root@backup.pixelchaos.net "dd of=/backup/home.tar.bz2"

To restore that same file over ssh:


ssh root@backup.pixelchaos.net "cat /backup/home.tar.bz2" | tar xjvf -

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