Backup in a single command line

Posted by ionut

July 30, 2007

If you want to do a simple backup of a directory, and also to send the archive over ssh on another machine, here is the useful command:

# tar czvf - /usr/local/etc/www/data | ssh user@192.168.1.1  "cat > www.tar.gz"

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