tar over ssh

[Iñaki Martínez <debian@euskal-linux.org>]

HI!!!

 i have 2 servers, server1 and server2, and i want to make a "tar" of some
directories in server2, but storing the tar_file in server1, as in server2 
there is NOT space left.

 NOTE: i do NOT want to use NFS.


 If i do the following:

 server1$ ssh user@server2 tar cvz directories_to_tar > file_in_server1.tgz

 it is OK, i make the tar file remotely, BUT i need to do it in reverse
order.


 Then what i need it is something like this:

 server2$ tar cvz directories_to_tar | ssh user@server1 > file_in_server1.tgz

 but THIS NOT WORK!!!! :-(

 Any idea, helkp, tip????

 Thanks in advance!



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