2011

Saturday 22.10.2011

So you need to transfer almost a GB of files…

4:14 pm

and the source server is too slow to tar -z all these files without having the tar process killed (and the thought of waiting several hours to trickle 50,000 files down the pipe is too much)… rsync is your friend! With compression, efficiency, and resume-able, it took only several minutes to shrink-send 700MB. Background: a [...]