Q about scp

[Bouda16]

Hello
Is it possible to stream data from remote system using scp?
I mean like get huge file from some remote system and compress it before writing it to local disk.

Regards
Josef

[Ivan Ferreira]

You can use something like this:

gzip -c | ssh dd of=/tmp/.gz

You have to replace by real host/files.

[Bouda16]

If I undestand it correctly, the packing process would by running on source server, but I need to run it on destination server :-(

[Ivan Ferreira]

Then, you can try this:

This is executed on the host that is the source for the file:

sourcehost> dd if= | ssh "gzip > /tmp/.gz"

Or

This is executed on the host that is the destination for the file:

dsthost> ssh dd if= | gzip > /tmp/.gz

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[Mark Poeschl_2]

Bear in mind that any use of scp/ssh is going to be quite slow. With GigE infrastructure, I am anly able to achieve ~75 Mbps throughput for a single ssh/scp stream.