i think if you wanted to be really slick you could tar/gzip via scp in a
single command. or you could tar/gz and then use SCP to retrive the file.

A rough example.

tar -zc path/to/source | ssh user@remote tar -zxC path/to/destination



On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 10:51 AM, keith smith <klsmith2020@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a VPS that I no loger want to use, however I would like to backup
> the the config files... ETC
>
> I was looking at wget and tar.
>
> Can I just tar and compress everything by doing something like:
>
> tar -czvf vps_name.tgz /  Then just sftp or wget to get it to my local
> drive?
>
> Thanks!!
>
> Keith
>
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