Copy files with tar over SSH
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Author: Momchil Ivanov <momchil@xaxo.eu>
Date  : 2013.09.21

Introduction
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  This article describes how to copy files with tar over SSH.

Create a tar archive over SSH
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  Create a tar archive directly over SSH:

    $ ssh server "tar cvf - /path/to/data" > file.tar

  This command creates a tar archive file.tar on the local machine
  with the content of the directory /path/to/data from server.

Copy files with tar over SSH
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  Copy files and directories with tar over SSH:

    $ ssh server "tar cvf - /path/to/data" | tar xvf - -C /new/root/path

  This command copies the content of the directory /path/to/data from
  server to the local directory /new/root/path.