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