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Rsync to stdout?

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Mar 15, 202612121 views
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Problem

I have access to backup server via rsync protocol (only rsync, nothing else). Now, I want to fetch file from there (which is .tar.gz) and pass it directly to tar command, without saving the archive in local filesystem. To visualize, with ssh access I could: And I will get uncompressed backup locall…

Error Output

ssh remote_host cat backup.file.tar.gz | tar xzf -

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Normally you could just use a named pipe, like so: However, rsync is too smart for it's own good, since it recognizes that the remote file is a normal file and the local one is a pipe. So it first deletes the pipe, then transfers the remote file. do…

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