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#Can we tar achive via SSH?

YES

This script does :

  • connect to the host
  • change dir to the desired
  • extract into local dir desired
export ssh_remote_host=myhost.com
export remote_user=me
export remote_dir_root=/www
export local_mirror=/c/usr/src/mymirrordir

cd $local_mirror
ssh $remote_user@$ssh_remote_host 'cd $remote_dir_root &&tar czf - *' | tar xzf -
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