remote file copy through archiving software
 

I know I read how to do this before, but can't find the message...

I need to back up a fold on a remote machine to my local box; the remote hd does not have enough space archive it, neither does my local box. I know there's a cantrip to pipe scp through gzip (or similar), but I don't remember the syntax. Anyone willing to offer some guidance?

Amgine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync maybe.. on local hard disc i think you can create directory in filesystem that can use compression on stored data.
or maybe you can tweak this line to use remote to archive process

dd bs=1M if=/dev/sda1 | gzip -c -3 > /mnt/backup/boxname-sda8-ext4-32GB.bin.gz