tar some files on a linux system from a remote unix system and ftp them to the unix system

You could try to pipe all the commands for creating the tar and sending via ssh, from your Solaris however I'm not sure if it's good idea. Thats just a quick thought.

Hello ,

you can found a lot site explain that on typing in google : tar over ssh

http://www.hostinggeek.com/2005/08/tar-over-ssh.html
http://todbot.com/blog/2005/06/26/ssh-and-tar-thru-ssh-gateway/

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-use-tar-command-through-network-over-ssh-session/





Using this method effectively sends the compressed tarball to the terminal. You then pipe that into an ssh session which is running the extract version of the previous tar function along with the change directory argument. This, essentially, sends the compressed tarball into a decompression process at the other end over a secure ssh "pipe".

The result is a pretty quick file transfer which - as the data is being sent in a compressed GZIP form (of BZip2 if you replace the z with a j in the tar functions) you save on bandwidth too.

Here an an example of how to do this, assuming you are in (for example) /var/www/html/ and the website you want to transfer is the folder www.example.com.

tar czf - www.example.com/ | ssh joebloggs@otherserver.com tar xzf - -C ~/

This will send the entire www.example.com folder over to the home folder on your target server in compressed form over and encrypted connection.


from : http://www.thingy-ma-jig.co.uk/blog/03-09-2008/using-tar-and-ssh-improve-scp-speeds

Regards

Can I script using ssh?  How would I enter a password?

I have a file setup on the linux system to run the tar.
I just need to execute that from the unix system.
Is that possible with ssh?

You can you key file for ssh, then you won't need a password

you can generate key file by ssh-keygen (see man on how to do this)

thanks

You can use pass phraseless keys use the SSH_ASKPASS variable. Google "ssh paraphraseless" or "ssh_askpass" for plenty of examples.