Re: Best way to transfer data from one FreeBSD machine to another

From: Mike Tancsa (mike_at_sentex.net)
Date: 07/16/04

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    On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 13:25:26 +1000, Jean-Yves Avenard <me@privacy.net>
    wrote:

    >Mike Tancsa wrote:
    >>
    >> I find dump the best way to do it as it keeps permissions, copies
    >> special file types and also does not message up the access time of
    >> files.
    >
    >This look like a really good solution. However it doesn't seem to
    >efficiently use the network link as it doesn't compress the data (so it
    >seems) is there a way to compress the data as it flows between the two
    >servers?

    -C on ssh enables compression in ssh. Or, you are free to pipe it
    through gzip first befored sending it across the net via ssh and then
    gzip -d it on the other side.

            ---Mike

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