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:

    this would then make this app as ..

    the best yahoo messenger for centos

    .. after pidgin.. hehehe 😎

    as it had supersede the pidgin capabilities to perform
    some additional task which is not available in pidgin..

    may be you had been using other messenger..
    kindly post your comment in the form below ..

    p/s : don’t shoot the messenger..

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  2. arlie_bcx says:

    I did the steps above but got this message while installing:

    warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 217521f6

    GPG key retrieval failed: [Errno 5] OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL’

    I’m using CentOS 5.6

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