Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > Locallly : > > tar lcf - . | (cd /other/area/store; tar -xpvf - ) > tar lcf - /path/to/file | (cd /other/area/store; tar -xpvf - )
Thanks, I've used that in the past but I could only get it to work in the same (local) computer. > > via SSH remotely : > > tar -czf - /directory/to/copy | ssh systemB tar -xzvf - -C /tmp If local box is 192.168.0.2 and remote box is 192.168.0.3 what should the above paths look like? > > How's that?? Bear in mind that SSH will use some overhead due to > encryption. (you can change the cipher to blowfish if you want/is not > that paranoid :-) How do I change the encryption to blowfish? -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list