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All the scripts I've seems to be pushing code from server to a backup server, I am trying to set the backup server to pull code from a live server.

I've managed it with the sql:

ssh -C [email protected] mysqldump -u user --password=test example | gzip > Backups/SQL_Backups/example/example_`date +%d%b%Y`.sql.gz

And that works perfectly, but now I'm trying to tar a public folder and send it back, so far I've managed to ssh on and tar the correct folder, but how do I send it back?

ssh -C [email protected] tar -c --bzip2 -f backup.tar /home/user/example.com/public/

I've tried doing this but it creates a blank archive

ssh -C [email protected] tar -c --bzip2 -f backup.tar /home/user/example.com/public/ | Backups/File_Backups/example/example_public_`date +%d%b%Y`.tar
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I think you should try with:

 ssh [email protected] tar -c --bzip2 -f - /home/user/example.com/public/ > Backups/File_Backups/example/example_public_`date +%d%b%Y`.tar.bz2
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  • That works great! I did try the > method but I didnt know you could put - as the file name as I was getting a blank archive, thanks!
    – Adam
    Commented Mar 11, 2015 at 12:56
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    Please also note that I removed -C in ssh, you do not want gzip compression for data compressed with bzip2.
    – Mircea Vutcovici
    Commented Mar 11, 2015 at 13:01

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