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 Sending Backups to Remote Hosts with |innobackupex|
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Besides using the :option:`--stream` for sending the backup to another host via piping (see :doc:`streaming_backups_innobackupex`), |innobackupex| can do it directly with the :option:`--remote-host` ::

  $ innobackupex --remote-host=REMOTEUSER@REMOTEHOST /path/IN/REMOTE/HOST/to/backup/

|innobackupex| will test the connection to ``REMOTEHOST`` via :command:`ssh` and create the backup directories needed as the ``REMOTEUSER`` you specified. The options for :command:`ssh` can be specified with :option:`--sshopt`

.. warning:: The path you provide for storing the backup will be created at ``REMOTEHOST``, not at the local host.

Then all the log files will be written to a temporary file on a local system (you can choose where to store this file with the :option:`--tmpdir` option) and will be copied via :command:`scp`. The options for :command:`scp` can be specified with :option:`--options-scp` (``-Cp -c arcfour`` by default), for example::

  $ innobackupex --remote-host=REMOTEUSER@REMOTEHOST /path/IN/REMOTE/HOST/to/backup/ \
     --tmpdir=/tmp --scpopt="-Cp -c arcfour"

.. note:: 

 `SSH  public key authentication <http://www.petefreitag.com/item/532.cfm>`_ should be set up to avoid the login prompt when doing the backup to the remote host.