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11-15-2005, 07:17 AM #1Newbie
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help
hello all i have afolder and i get it in tar this file is 3 gigabyte how can i copy this file to another server
thanks
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11-15-2005, 07:33 AM #2Junior Guru Wannabe
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Fist if its a .tar file , gzip it (gzip -9 file.tar) , after this it should be smaller than 3GB.
After that you will see file.tar.gz , upload it to another server using ftp or scp if you have shell access
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11-15-2005, 04:06 PM #3Junior Guru
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I wouldn't bother with the -9 option unless the tar file has a lot of text files. Binary data doesn't compress as well so you will be spending more time waiting for gzip to compress it when the end result won't be much smaller than a normal gzip compress.
Sooooo, topmelody this might be a bit over your head... basically the rule is if you have a lot of text files, feel free to use the -9 option. If not, don't worry about it.apex13 - http://www.apex13.com/
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11-15-2005, 04:51 PM #4Temporarily Suspended
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You could use scp to copy the file from one server to another.