Re: [PLUG] Moveing large files

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>]

On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 11:59:09AM -0500, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 11:47:55AM -0500, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> > Can you nfs-mount the target drive?  If so, maybe you could do
> > something like this:
> > 
> >   cd /nfs/path/to/target
> >   split /path/to/bigfile
> 
> Augh! No!
> 
> NFS is almost as slow as ssh and it will *really* muck up your
> network for any other traffic.

Well, at some point he needs to move 7 gigs across the network no
matter which method he uses...

OK then...how about physically moving the hard drive from the old box
to the new? :-)

Attachment: pgp20MlAFwiws.pgp
Description: PGP signature