Backup laptop data.. over ssh and tar..

cd /home ; tar cvf – user | ssh remotemachine ‘cd /destination ; tar xf -‘

it will transfer all file in /home/user to remotemachine:/destination

later on.. you might need to transfer back..

using..

ssh remotemachine ‘cd /destination ; tar cvf – user’ | cd /home/ ; tar xf –

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  1. namran says:

    XMMS/Audacious 1.3: Title format needs to be set as ‘%p | %a | %t’ in the players preferences. Delimiter choice ‘|’ can be changed in musictracker settings.

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  2. namran says:

    XMMS/Audacious 1.3: Title format needs to be set as ‘%p | %a | %t’ in the players preferences. Delimiter choice ‘|’ can be changed in musictracker settings.

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