Copy with SCP - low performance

[Christopher Ness]

On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 18:04, Horacio Reyes wrote:
> I am using scp to copy large amount of small files between 2 servers
> with a firewall in the middle, but the copy takes all CPU, this is the
> situation:
> 
> - The files are copied in batch of 100 tif images, in a directory with
> more than 5 million files.

Do you have the diskspace to make a tarball and optionally compress the
tarball before sending?

I'm not sure if it's the small files or the firewall that is causing
your slow transfer.  If it's the number of files this could be a
solution.

Cheers,
Chris
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