Need help with tranfering big files

[dhewton]

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This worked like a dream.

Here is my challenge. The /tmp dir is very small. the "My Pictures" dir is several gigs. Is there no way I could just recursively sftp the contents of a directory?

Also, some of the directorys are odd names: My Excell Dos (perblahblah). Because of the (perblahblah) I cannot resolve the address. How do I tell tar where to look for this. It handles My Exell Docs no probs, but the bracketed dirs don't get seen.

Being able to just recursively sftp would be the easiest.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Dan

To transfer this file, if you initiate the sftp from the livecd box, you will do:

Code:
cd /tmp
lcd /tmp
put your_directory.tar.gz
quit


This will copy the tar.gz file to your linux box in the tmp folder. To unzip/untar it in the target folder, you will do:

Code:
cd target_folder
tar xzvf your_directory.tar.gz
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DannyBoy

[fleed]

You could try piping the output of tar through a ssh pipe. Something like
tar -cjf - /dirtobecopied | ssh user@host "cat - | tar -xjf -"

should work. You might also want to specify blowfish as the encryption algorithm so your cpus are not too taxed (-c blowfish as a param of ssh).

[nielchiano]