Re: using tar on localhost

From: Richard E. Silverman (res_at_qoxp.net)
Date: 06/23/05


Date: 22 Jun 2005 23:41:42 -0400


>>>>> "Payal" == Payal <payalrathod@gmail.com> writes:

    Payal> Hello, I have a shell account on a remote server with a quota
    Payal> of 25Mb. I have used 23Mb till now. Now I want to tar.gz it and
    Payal> get it on my machine. But I cannot do so because quota will be
    Payal> exceeded. Can I tar the remote files and instead of storing
    Payal> them on remote machine make the archive on local machine, using
    Payal> ssh?

$ ssh remote tar zcf - . > remote.tar.gz

-- 
  Richard Silverman
  res@qoxp.net


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