Little Known Linux commands

[SirDice]

Alright.. Consider this:

mkdir test && cd test
touch mytest
ln -s mytest mytest2
ln -h mytest mytest2

Now scp that test dir to another machine... See what you end up with.. 3 copies of the same file and no more symlinks.

[hatebreed2000]

If you wanna backup across the net using SSH (course assuming /etc as the source to backup and bkuphost is destination hostname or IP):

tar zvcf - /etc | ssh bkuphost "cat > destfile.tgz"

Another thing you could do is replace the destfile.tgz with /dev/tape to backup to tape.