Network file transfers as root

[Brian Astill]

Can this be done?

I can communicate between two computers using gftp (using SSH and openssh 
server) and have transferred all the files in my Home directory from one to 
the other, as "myself".  But what I would like to do is copy the whole Ubuntu 
system from one computer to the other, and that would require root 
privileges.  So ...  like I asked,  can this be done?

Oh!  and how?  :-)

Thanks in advance for your help.

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Regards,
Brian