Using tar and ssh to backup files across hosts

[Terrence Miao <t.miao@its.unimelb.edu.au>]

Using tar and ssh to backup files across hosts 

[cwis@igloo ~]$ tar cvf - * | ssh cwis@magrathea '( cd ~/work/ipreg; tar xvf -; tar cvf igloo-cvs.tar *; gzip igloo-cvs.tar; mv igloo-cvs.tar.gz ../igloo-cvs.tar.gz-`date +"%Y%m%d"` )'