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Copying files using scp/SSH and tar

If you need to copy data from one computer to other one, specially if you copy big volume of data, it's much faster to use tar to compress data before sending them over SSH connection.
Here's an example how it could be done:

tar czf - /path/files-to-copy | ssh user@remotehost "cat > /path/data.tgz"

It creates archive data.tgz at /path.
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