On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 17:28:44 -0500 Matthew Juszczak <matt at atopia.net> wrote: > But there would only be one client .. the machine behind my > firewall...connecting to the two servers, which are publically > available. > > -Matt > Why not (from the client box)? ssh remotehost "cd /path/to/dir; tar -czf - dir_name" | cat >backup.tgz