how do I reverse this?

I would like to ssh from this machine to another and tar a file back to this machine over the ssh session.

Hi there,

If I am getting it correctly what you are looking for is to ssh a machine, create tar.gz file there and send it back to original machine over ssh. Is that correct? If that is the case I would suggest you to use scp as follows:


tar -cvf testing.tar.gz testing && scp -vrp /root/testing.tar.gz root@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/root/

Command before && will create a tar and scp will copy it over to the machine from where you have ssh to this machine.

where for tar:

c=create
v=verbose
f=file_name

Where for scp:

v=verbose
r=recursively
p=preserve permissions
xxx=ip address of the destination server dont forget the : after that

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To create a tarball on a remote host and pull it from there:

By sending the tarball to stdout, you can pull it over ssh without having to create it on the remote host's filesystem.

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Exactly what I was looking for.

Cheers.

Thanks to T3RM1NVT0R as well for the original reply.