copy folder to remote server

[Jerry Queirolo]

I think where you have :
tar zcvf -  /usr/local/apache/htdocs | ssh root at 1.2.3.4 "cat >
/var/www/html/htdocs.tar.gz"

would need to be :
tar zcvf -  /usr/local/apache/htdocs | ssh root at 1.2.3.4 "cd /tmp/test;tar
-zxf -" 

(to end up with /tmp/test/usr/local/apache/htdocs/* copied over)

Regards,
Jerry Queirolo