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File copy snippets
Posté le 27th septembre 2008 Pas de commentairesUseful file copy snippets collection for systems administration. scp is not here : syntax is trivial, and scp is really slow. The snippets below are supposed to be much faster, especially when dealing with many small files.
netcat style
- On sender :
cd to the top dir to be copied recursively, and :
tar cv . | nc -vq 10 -l -p 1234- On receiver :
cd to the dir where the content has to be copied, and :
nc -v sender 1234 | tar xf -ssh style
- Data is remote, copy to where I am now :
ssh user@source "cd /source/dir; tar cv ." | tar x- Data is in current directory, copy to remote server :
tar cv . | ssh user@destination "cd /dest/dir; tar x"rsync+ssh style
- Data is in current directory, copy to remote server :
rsync -ve ssh -ar . user@destination:/dest/dir/Note : add ‘z’ to tar options if link is slow

