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November 5, 2013 17:54
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Wicket trick to directly copy data from the "machine-where-precious-data-is" to the machine you are working on, using the benefits of tar (preserving permissions, links, etc) but not being hindered by the difficulties of tar. (making these possibly large files and so on.) - @author: http://meinit.nl/using-tar-and-ssh-to-efficiently-copy-files-pr…
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| ssh user@machine-where-precious-data-is "tar czpf - /some/important/data" | tar xzpf - -C /new/root/directory |
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