tar from remote server

[Deepak Seth_1]

I have a server placed in sydney . What is fastest way to copy around 4 gig of data.
Few points
-The T1 speed is 256 KBPS.
-I have no free space in remote server.

Iam presently trying this command . But it is not very efficient .

time remsh remotehost"cd /data1;tar cf - 120/ttccom" | tar xvf -

Anybody improves it or suggest a better method.

thanx in advance .

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Deepak,

Here is a link on how to use tar for remote backup and restore.

http://us-support.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=ce4c2ae2087b66d773/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000055821055

4 Gig is a big amount of data and i doubt you'll find something to improve the performance since the data is being pulled across the netowrk which has its own limitations and may be in use for other purpose too.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi Deepak

Can you zip up the data on the remote server before moving it?

gzip-9 /

Paula

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi Deepak,

Add compress and umcompress to your remsh pipeline. compress can use stdin/stdout.