On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 00:56, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 11:01 -0500, Matthew Crocker wrote: > > If you need to copy a bunch of stuff *and* keep your permissions you > > can do something like > > > > > > tar czf - /files/I/want/to/back/up/* | ssh -l root -c "(cd > > /new/location/for/files && tar -xf - )" > > > > Basically you are creating a tar file and outputting it to STDOUT which > > is piped to STDIN of an ssh session which sends it to STDIN of a tar > > process running on the other machine. > > > > Good Lord. > > Much simpler way, Matt: Simpler yes. Efficient No. > > rsync -avSPe ssh /path/to/files/* user@host:/path/to/directory/ usage of Rsync is only good when you already have partial trees. When you want to transfer things from scratch, usage of tar is _very_ much faster. Time it and you'll see what I mean. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 00:02:29 up 3:08, 2 users, load average: 0.19, 0.49, 0.68
