I prefer rsync over ssh but you need ssh keys, here example: $ rsync -avz -e ssh remoteuser@remotehost:/remote/dir /this/dir/ <a href="http://troy.jdmz.net/rsync/index.html">http://troy.jdmz.net/rsync/index.html</a> I hope help you. <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 11:15 PM, Mike Wright <<a href="mailto:mike.wright@mailinator.com">mike.wright@mailinator.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi all, There was a fascinating thread about using ssh to do backups to a remote host without using a term. Something like: "tar jc some_dir | ssh -T user@remote cat > backup" Tried the examples and then some --- works great! I seem to have fat-fingered the delete key and have lost that email thread and try for the life of me can't find it again. Anybody with a better memory than me (probably everybody) remember it? TIA, Mike Wright :m) -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com" target="_blank">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> </blockquote></div> -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Yours, Waleed Harbi If you want your goals to come true, don't sleep