I've got a small website that I need to upload to a remote server. I need to do it securely, so I figured I'd use sftp.

I don't want to "put" each file individually because that would be tedious. I want to tell sftp to upload a tar file, and then un-tar it, in-place, once it gets there.

But "sftp help" doesn't say anything about un-tarring a file. And I don't have access to ssh into the server to do it myself.

How do most folks upload their site to a server on which they only have sftp access? Or is what I'm asking to do unusual? Maybe I'm *supposed* to be able to ssh in, and I just don't know it...(?)

Nevermind, ignore me...I'm pretty sure this was wrong.

Hmm... maybe I'm supposed to use a GUI ftp client that wraps sftp?..

EDIT: Ok, turns out we've got ssh access to our public_html directory, so all is well. I should be able to just upload the tar file with sftp, and then ssh in to untar it.

This might help - http://gftp.seul.org/. I tried it, and the interface leaves something to be desired, but it does list FTPS in the protocol list ...

Ah, ok cool. Glad to hear it :-)

Thanks rose_bud4201. Looks like now I've got two ways to get the job done. :)

You can use scp to copy file to ssh-host and then untar it

> You can use scp to copy file to ssh-host and then untar it

Heh. Forgot about that. Thanks nixcraft.