Copy with SCP - low performance

[Florin Andrei]

On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 15:04, 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.

If you only need to copy them once, tar them up first (perhaps with gzip
as well), then scp.

If you need to copy them often, and not all the images change from last
copy, rsync over ssh is the answer.

-- 
Florin Andrei

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