how do I copy from server to server

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 00:56, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 11:01 -0500, Matthew Crocker wrote:
> > If you need to copy a bunch of stuff *and* keep your permissions you 
> > can do something like
> > 
> > 
> > tar czf - /files/I/want/to/back/up/* | ssh -l root -c "(cd 
> > /new/location/for/files && tar -xf - )"
> > 
> > Basically you are creating a tar file and outputting it to STDOUT which 
> > is piped to STDIN of an ssh session which sends it to STDIN of a tar 
> > process running on the other machine.
> > 
> 
> Good Lord.
> 
> Much simpler way, Matt:

Simpler yes. Efficient No.

> 
> rsync -avSPe ssh /path/to/files/* user at host:/path/to/directory/

usage of Rsync is only good when you already have partial trees. When
you want to transfer things from scratch, usage of tar is _very_ much
faster.

Time it and you'll see what I mean.


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