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Thanks!

I have added that one-liner to the remote commands page:

https://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/remote_commands.html

... although based on some of your siblings, I changed .dump to .backup ...

Sadly, that doesn't look like it will work. The '.backup' command needs a filename and won't accept '-' or even '/dev/stdout', at least in the version available on Debian it will simply error out with "missing FILENAME argument on .backup".

As noted '.dump' will work in your pipeline, but with the caveats I and others noted elsewhere.

Fixed. Thank you.

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