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

[goozbach at neverblock.com (Derek Carter)]

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> tar cjf - head-of-tarball-files | ssh user at remotemachine.net
> "(cd /path-to-new-place; tar xjf -)"
> 

or

rsync -r -C localdir user at remote:dir

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Derek aka goozbach