Mental Patient on 18 Oct 2003 21:36:02 -0400


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

Magnus wrote:

    dd if=bigfingfile | ssh apple dd of=bigfingfile

But I wish to reiterate that moving big files over ssh is not advisable.


Could you explain why? The encryption overhead is negligable on modern processors. I regularly tunnel rsync over ssh. Whats the problem?



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