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On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 06:54:31PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Not mentioned yet:
>   cd /path/to/root/of/files && tar -cf - . | ssh me@destination 'cd /path/to destination && tar -xvpf -'
> or similar with "dump ... | ssh ... restore ..." with either the native
> compression of ssh or tar (or no compression at all if the transfered
> size doesn't matter).

Or if you don't need encryption you can also use netcat. Works
like cat but then over tcp/ip sockets.

/usr/ports/net/netcat

Greets,


Jo

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