Tarring a filesystem to a remote bundle

January 2009


Imagine a filesystem mounted read-only from a ramdisk or the like, and a need to transfer all the files in the system to another host, into a single tar bundle. See also This is how it's done.

tar cvf - /mountpoint|ssh remoteuser@remotehost gzip - \> \~/mountpoint.tgz

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Of course you can also choose to let tar do the zipping if the local machine is faster.