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scp -C does the same thing. Both methods use gzip for compression.
by doosra 17y ago
scp -C does the same thing. Both methods use gzip for compression.
- rarrrrrr 17y agoBut the tar method will generally be 5-15x faster for large collections of small files. Handing it with tar makes operations on both ends asynchronous. scp (or rsync, etc.) of multiple files does file opens on each end in lockstep, resulting in a lot of idle wait time.