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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