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This uses a LiveCD, SSH, and tar. This is very useful when recovering files from a broken Windows machine. It also works without the LiveCD on any computer with SSH and tar.

create an archive of the folder /home/bob on a remote computer "remote" called bobhome.tgz

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tar zcvf - /home/bob | ssh user@remote "cat > bobhome.tgz"

and the restore it back to the computer you are on

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ssh user@remote "cat bobhome.tgz" | tar zpvxf -

or, if you moved to your server, unarchive the files and push them to a remote computer

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ssh user@remote "cd /home/bob; tar zpvxf -" < bobhome.tgz