Rsync backup to tar or gzip archive

[John Summerfied]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 16:18, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> 
>>If you just want to
>>create an archive on the remote machine, then use:
>>
>>tar -cf - <some files> | ssh <remote machine> "tar -cf <archive>"
> 
> 
> You don't need tar on the other end - you just want to save
> the output to a file:
> tar -cf - . | ssh remote_machine  'cat >/path/to/file.tar'
"\ssh" please.

I have an alias set for ssh to expand ssh to "ssh -t" and that destroys 
tarballs.
"\ssh" always works.


Howver, this sends everything every time. See my earlier post for a 
better way.

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