Netcat Tar Pipe

Sometimes SCP, SFTP or other methods of file transfer aren’t available. Using netcat and tar, files can be archived and sent over the network on the fly, like this:

On the destination server:

mkdir /destination/directory
cd /destination/directory
nc -l 7000 | tar x

On the source server:

cd /source/directory
tar cf - * | nc destination-hostname 7000