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January 16, 2014 18:36
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Useful to move many files (thousands or millions files) over ssh. Faster than scp because this way you save a lot of tcp connection establishments (syn/ack packets).
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| tar -cf - relative/path/to/dir | gzip -c | ssh user@example.com 'cd ~/path/to/dir; tar xfz -' | |
| # If using a fast lan (I have just tested gigabyte ethernet) it is faster to not compress the data so the command would be: | |
| # tar -cf - relative/path/to/dir | ssh user@example.com 'cd ~/path/to/dir; tar xf -' |
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