SSH - Tar

Some time you will need to copy a file between SSH Serer and SSH Client. It is possible to use standard “scp”. On another hand sometime it is handy to know as well about another possibilities. In this document I would like to describe the possibility to use SSH and TAR to compress the file at the same time as it will be transferred between SSH Client and SSH Server.

Example

[user@SSH_Client ~]$ ls                                                                                   # We would like to copy this file
source_file

[user@SSH_Client ~]$ tar cvzf - source_file | ssh user@SSH_Server "cat> ~/destination_file.tar.gz"        # Copy & Compress file
source_file
user@ssh_server's password:
[user@SSH_Client ~]$

[user@SSH_Server ~]$ ls                                                                                   # We have created this file
destination_file.tar.gz

Example

[user@SSH_Server ~]$ ls                                                                                   # We would like to copy this file
source_file

[user@SSH_Client ~]$ ssh user@SSH_Server "tar cvzf - source_file " | cat> ~/destination_file.tar.gz       # Copy & Compress file
user@ssh_server's password:
source_file
[user@SSH_Client ~]$

[user@SSH_Client ~]$ ls                                                                                   # We have created this file
destination_file.tar.gz