tar -czf - dir/ | ssh user@host 'cat > archive.tar.gz'

Category: Archiving & Compression

tar -czf - dir/ | ssh user@host 'cat > archive.tar.gz'

Stream tar archive over SSH to remote host

Creates a tarball and streams it directly over SSH to save it on a remote server without creating a local file.
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