How to X session forwarding over SSH
SSH allows secure (encrypted and authenticated) connections between two hosts. These connections include terminal sessions, file transfers, TCP port forwarding, as well as X window forwarding which I will be covering here. X forwarding is a form of tunneling that allows you to run a GUI application on a remote machine but let you [...]
Using tar to archive files
TAR is the GNU Tape ARchive utility. It is used to pack the contents of multiple files or directories in an archive file called a tarball. Tar can preserve directory organization including file ownership, permissions, links, as well as directory structure. To save space you can optionally enable compression with gzip, bzip2, or another external [...]