Transfer files between servers

By CA RO on March 7, 2009

With Secure Copy (slowest) : scp -r dir user@destination-host:/tmp/

Tar through SSH: tar czpf – dir | ssh user@destination-host tar xzpf – -C /tmp/

Tar with Netcat (fastest):

  • On destination-host: nc -l -p 7000 | tar xzpf – -C /tmp/
  • On source-host: tar czpf – dir | nc -w 10 destination-host 7000

For the methods with tar command, you can use verbose with the command on the destination host to log the process.

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