Comments on: on copying files http://dom.as/2009/01/30/on-copying-files/ Sat, 17 Dec 2011 20:14:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: bst http://dom.as/2009/01/30/on-copying-files/#comment-1414 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:10:40 +0000 http://dammit.lt/?p=300#comment-1414 socat instead of nc.

]]> By: Xaprb http://dom.as/2009/01/30/on-copying-files/#comment-1413 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:35:32 +0000 http://dammit.lt/?p=300#comment-1413 There’s a great thread on this topic at Advogato.

http://advogato.org/article/555.html

I have been using nc|tar for file copies for a long time. scp, rsync, etc al fall on their faces… nc is the bomb. Much much faster.

]]> By: Erik Ljungstrom http://dom.as/2009/01/30/on-copying-files/#comment-1412 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:56:32 +0000 http://dammit.lt/?p=300#comment-1412 Just to avoid someone having to spend a few hours restoring from backups; The first example would copy the files from server Y to server X, not the other way around.

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