One-step tarring/scp (was Re: [ale] hardware to back up a Dell laptop)

[James P. Kinney III]

On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 17:40 -0500, Derek Carter wrote:
> James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > tar cjf - head-of-tarball-files | ssh user at remotemachine.net
> > "(cd /path-to-new-place; tar xjf -)"
> > 
> 
> or
> 
> rsync -r -C localdir user at remote:dir

Or better:

rsync -e ssh -r -C localdir user at remote:dir

But an rsync on the initial transfer is actually SLOWER than a plain
tarball transfer. Each 1k block is checked and found to be missing and
then transferred, repeat ad nauseum.
> 
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