Re: copying a 12GB file

[Lubos Vrbka <lubos.vrbka@gmail.com>]

> FTP would probably be the fastest, but scp (file transfer over SSH) is 
> probably already on both machines if they're both Linux.  PuTTY is an 
> excellent SSH/SCP client for Windows (and Unix) if you need cross 
> platform support.
>
> You probably don't want to use SSH Compression as I've seen it actually 
> slow down file transfers over fast LAN links.  The SSH encryption might 
> slow down the transfer as well, so the transfer speed might depend on 
> the speed of your CPUs.
additional comment - iirc, it's possible to choose weak encryption for 
ssh that might actually speed it up a bit.

regards,

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Lubos
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