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[zoldar]

Last time when I've tried to do that with scp, it didn't perserve the uid/gid). After a bit of struggling with man pages, that line did the trick:

tar cvf - [local file/dir] | ssh 172.16.0.1 tar xvf - --directory [remote dir]

[activelobby4u]

Coool ..i like that stuff....lemme dig deeper and ll let u know if i find anything more