ssh

[KevinO]

On 02/16/2012 11:12 AM, Michael Havens wrote:
> I'm using fsarchiver to backup a computer. I don't have enough diskspace
> for the archive. I can ssh to another computer. I know which directory I
> want to save it in but I don't know how to write the file directly to it. I
> tried it with a pipe and I tried it with a greater-than sign. Pray-tell!
> how is it done?
> 
man scp

in a nutshell:

$ scp -r path_to_dir_here [username]@machine:/path_to_destination

it will prompt for an ssh password, if needed.

-- 
KevinO