[mdlug] sshfs mount

[Carl T. Miller]

Mat Enders wrote:
>         I am moving a large amount of data from one server to another.
> Out of convenience I am doing an sshfs mount of both servers then
> using Nautilus to drag and drop the data.  My question, is the
> data coming to my laptop and back out or is it just moving from
> one server to the other?  I would expect that it is going directly
> from one server to the other.

All of that traffic is going through your laptop.

Can you sshfs mount a directory on one of your servers?
If so, you can ssh to the server with the mount and run
a copy command, and all the traffic will go directly
from one server to the other.

c