[mdlug] sshfs mount

[Mark Thuemmel]

I tend to gravitate to rsync instead of scp because if I get interrupted 
I can restart where I left off and update the backup without copying 
everything every time.  I don't know if scp supports restarts.

ssh into the server and issue something like this;

rsync -avz -e ssh remoteuser at remotehost:/remote/dir /this/dir/

I can understand the gui way Mat is doing it for bunches of small files 
all over the place though.  In that case I might consider installing 
NoMachine NX on the server and just one mount to the remote instead of 
two mounts Mat described (which is doubling the data transfer 
(server->laptop->destination)

I vote Carl is right according to the way Mat said "mount both servers" 
and laptop, assuming his laptop is not one of the servers.

On a lan it probably isn't too bad, but over the Internet it could be 
more significant.



On 12/30/2011 03:23 PM, Jeff Hanson wrote:
> I believe scp can copy directly between remote servers:
> http://www.linuxtutorialblog.com/post/ssh-and-scp-howto-tips-tricks
>
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Mat Enders<mat.enders at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Ok folks we 2 competing theories.  Let's have some more input. Who do you think is right and why? Carl? Harry?
>> Mat Enders from my BlackBerry®
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: "Mat Enders"<mat.enders at gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:18:52
>> To: MDLUG's Main discussion list<mdlug at mdlug.org>
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>> Subject: sshfs mount
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>>         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.
>> Mat Enders from my BlackBerry®