Hi All

In server 13 , I have a folder called nagesh.
It is around 145GB and free space on the server is 150GB
so, I am unable to tar it.
I need to tar and scp to another server called 14.

So, is there any way directly I can tar the folder in server 14 ?

I have tried like this

tar -cpf - nagesh | /usr/bin/ssh radh@13 "( cd /home/nagesh/work/scripts ; cat > nagesh.tar )"

If you have a 150 GB free you should be able to tar 145 GB.

However since you're trying to preserve space and copy to another server anyway you should just make your original tar file with the "-z" option which filters the archive through gzip (to make a .tgz or .tar.gz file). You could then copy this file across with scp. By doing it this way you'd preserve bandwidth on the transfer.

If your ultimate goal is to untar the file on the other side anyway you might want to use rsync instead. It can be used to duplicate directory structures from one location to another and has options for compressing/decompressing as it transfers so again reduces bandwidth. (Also it has the beauty that it only transfers what is different so if it got interrupted and restarted it would only have to transfer what hadn't yet been completed.)

the tar command you executed is ok. To be able to run tar on server14 you need to make the dir nagesh available on server14. (you need to share and mount that dir somehow)

So what were the errors if any?

I assumed that "radh@13" in your first post was a typo however does user radh exist on server 14? If so do does user radh have permissions to write to /home/nagesh/work/scripts?