Answer by tsionyx for scp and compress at the same time, no intermediate save
Small improvement for the dkbhadeshiya's answer: you don't have to do cd dir, just specify working directory to the tar instead: ssh user@host "tar -C /path/to/data/ -zc directory_name" | tar zx You...
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I think this command will do the trick ssh user@host "cd /path/to/data/;tar zc directory_name" | tar zx EDIT: an earlier version was with two wrong "f" options. Now, first of all you have to execute...
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There are many ways to do what you want. The simplest is to use a pìpe: tar zcvf - MyBackups | ssh user@server "cat > /path/to/backup/foo.tgz" Here, the compression is being handled by tar which...
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What is the canonical way to: scp a file to a remote location compress the file in transit (tar or not, single file or whole folder, 7za or something else even more efficient) do the above without...
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