copy dir to remote server with ssh, tar and gzip

Daniele Cariboni

The first code will copy all the files from your local 'localfolder' to the remote 'target' directory. Symlink will not be included.

The second code will copy the symlink form your local 'localfolder' to the remote 'target' directory. Symlink will be copied as regular files

tar zcvf - ./localfolder/ | ssh remoteserver "tar xzf - -C /path/to/target"


#to copy symlink as files
tar zcvfh - ./localfolder/ | ssh remoteserver "tar xzf - -C /path/to/target"