Use tar through network over SSH

The tar archiving utility can be use through network over ssh session Following command backups /mydata directory to server.example.com (IP 192.168.1.201) host over ssh session.

The default first SCSI tape drive under Linux is /dev/st0. You can read more about tape drives naming convention used under Linux here.

~# tar zcvf - /mydata | ssh root@server.example.com "cat > /backup/mydata.tar.gz"