One-step tarring/scp (was Re: [ale] hardware to back up a Dell laptop)

[jkinney at localnetsolutions.com (James P. Kinney III)]

tar cjf - head-of-tarball-files | ssh user at remotemachine.net
"(cd /path-to-new-place; tar xjf -)"
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 16:18 -0500, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> Bob Toxen wrote:
> > 1. If it supports Ethernet, back up over your LAN.  You could use tar to
> >    stdout piped to ssh to cp stdin over the network.
> I've been doing this thing where I first tar up a machine's filesystem 
> and scp off the file to somewhere.  I'd love to be able to do that in 
> one action such that I don't have to write to any disk as an 
> intermediate step.  What would that look like?
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