Re: tar on nfs freezes
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 01:05:20PM +0200, Martin Maciaszek wrote:
> For copying large abounts of data over the network I suggest
> using a netcat tunnel. This works faster than scp and doesn't
> need any network file systems.
>
> 1. On the destination system start netcat listening on an
> arbitrary port and piping it's output to tar. (Make sure that
> you're in the right directory, since tar will extract into the
> current directory. Alternatively you can use the -C option)
> e.g.: nc -l -p $PORT | tar -xf -
>
> 2. On the source system pipe the output of tar to netcat which
> sends the data over the network to the destination machine.
> e.g.: tar -cf - $DIRECTORY | nc $HOST $PORT
>
> 3. Just sit back and wait :)
What and where is 'nc'?
Neither 'man -k' nor 'apt-cache search' finds anything
for either 'nc' or 'netcat'.
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