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Subject: Re: Copying files without scp
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Hi,

> Can someone recommend a *known good* production quality copy mechanism
> that will act like scp, but without the overhead? rsh? nc?

I sometime use tar+rsh. Tar because I want to be sure to preserve all
ownership and modes of the files and directories.

Bests,

olivier