SUMMARY: How to tar a remote directory structure

From: Dean Waters (dwaters@RedBrick.COM)
Date: Wed Apr 30 1997 - 16:55:55 CDT

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Question: How to tar a remote directory structure

I know I have did this before but can't figure out the syntax. I need all of
/xxx from one machine to another over the ethernet. /xxx is part of a
filessystem, ie not a complete partition. It will be going on a new
partition on the other machine.

Answer:

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>cd fromdir; tar cBf - . | rsh remote "(cd todir; tar xBf -)"
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