Re: [PLUG] Transfer REALLY large file(s) between Linux and OS X

[Tobias DiPasquale <toby@cbcg.net>]

On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 18:42, Magnus wrote:
> If you are in a situation where you must encrypt the connection, you 
> can try piping dd.  Like:
> 
> 	dd if=bigfingfile | ssh apple dd of=bigfingfile
> 
> But I wish to reiterate that moving big files over ssh is not advisable.

This is basically what scp does, only without spawning multiple
processes. There's also no reason not to move a file that large over
scp, if time is not an critical factor. As for being "flat out insane",
its nothing of the sort and FTP wouldn't be all that much faster. Try it
sometime.

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