sending large amount of data securely

[Nathan Vidican]

Dave wrote:
> Hello,
>    I've got two freebsd6 boxes on one i have a large collection of 
> files, like about 3.5 gb worth, that i want to send securely to the 
> other box. I've tried:
> 
> scp -24Cpr
> 
> to do it, it transfered 1gb of data then quit. I'm suspecting it didn't 
> get the sym links if any in this data. Any suggestions appreciated.
> Thanks.
> Dave.
> 
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> 
We mirror (nightly) about 300GB worth of data accross one master and three slave 
servers (three copies of 300GB of data nightly) using rsync, we do not use ssh 
as it's a local-only gigabit ethernet link between servers, but it's not overly 
difficult to accomplish in your case.

One thing to note; rsync will allow you to keep data synchronized by only 
copying the difference from one directory tree to another, so in our case the 
actual nightly transfer is only in the neighborhood of about 30GB, and it takes 
about 1/2hr to complete to all slaves in sequence.

Hope it helps, but my two cents - use rsync for that.

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Nathan Vidican
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