How can I issue system backup over SSH?

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Contacts:

devel-su -p vcardconverter -e contacts.vcf
or
devel-su -p vcardconverter --export contacts.vcf

Calendar:

devel-su -p icalconverter export calendar.ics

Messages:

commhistory-tool export -groups messages.exp

Calls:

commhistory-tool export -calls calls.exp

(both above working on DB file
/home/nemo/.local/share/commhistory/commhistory.db →
so a simple
tar -cvzf commhist.tgz /home/$USER/.local/share/commhistory/
would also work

Notes:
for notes I do not know tool, so
tar -cvzf notes.tgz /home$USER/.local/share/jolla-notes/
will do the trick

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