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You can push or pull, but make sure the appropriate end is tarring and untarring, if you must use tar, ugh!

For one line, I like this: You know/can review what you find, you can choose your...

tar will copy - the originating host is untouched.

One line? Use semicolons !

Which man tar has B?

If you want simple, with compression, something like this (might be scp, might be -C): scp2 -rpd +C /top_dir1 /top_dri2 /top_dir3 remote_host:/...

Yes this will do a recursive copy from "dir". Using ssh it would be:
tar -cBpf - /dir | ssh user@host "tar -xBpf - "
If you need to relocate the dir then cd into the parent dir and type:
tar...

tar -cBpf - /dir | rsh host -l user "tar -xBpf - "