Solaris: ssh tunnel and nc file transfer

You pipe the file to a listening socket on the server machine in the same way as before. It is assumed that an SSH server runs on this machine too.

$ cat backup.iso | nc -l 3333
On the client machine connect to the listening socket through an SSH tunnel:

$ ssh -f -L 23333:127.0.0.1:3333 me@192.168.0.1 sleep 10; \
        nc 127.0.0.1 23333 | pv -b > backup.iso

This way of creating and using the SSH tunnel has the advantage that the tunnel is automagically closed after file transfer finishes. For more information and explanation about it please read my article about auto-closing SSH tunnels.