Paul on 17 Oct 2003 21:46:02 -0400


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


Magnus wrote:


On Friday, October 17, 2003, at 06:51 PM, Tobias DiPasquale wrote:

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.


I have, many times. Given an adequate pipe, scp is often at least 3x slower moving a very large (4GB+) file. Now when I was moving a lot of files this size, it was over a gigabit pipe so with a slower pipe you might not notice much of a difference.


I would put the drives together in the same machine to move /that/ much data! Another thing, I read that wget can be used to download files with the ability to continue broken connections; a definate plus when copying anything larger than a few hundred meg.

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