[Sussex] Copying directories across machines [Was: Mail for Nik]

[Karl E. Jorgensen]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 01:55:18PM +0100, steve at dobson.org wrote:
> Hi Goat liker
> 
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 12:36:24PM +0000, sussex at welikegoats.com wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 steve at dobson.org wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 01:25:52PM +0100, Richie Jarvis wrote:
> > > ...
> > >   (cd <src-dir> && tar cf - .) | (cd <dst-dir> && tar xcf -)
> >  ...
> > Also, I don't really see the difference between this and cp -a
> > src-dir dst-dir ...
> 
> ...
> 
> But the real power is in adding to the pipeline.  Take a look at the
> example I am using here which copies from one machine to another.
> Compression might have been useful here (the network is the bottleneck).
> 
>    $ tar cf - . | ssh root at 10.100.1.198 "cd /usr/src/linux-2.6 && tar xvf -"
> 
> That is something you can't do with cp(1).

But you can do with scp ...

    $ scp -pr ./ root at 10.100.1.198:/usr/src/linux-2.6/

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