On 1/6/2011 1:04 PM, Kwan Lowe wrote:
It would be interesting to see how compression would do if pushing across a slow link :).
There are many times where I run across the OP's scenario, but often I need to push a tar across a relatively slow link. bzip is slower to compress, but may make up the difference in transfer time. Maybe time to fire up maxima and find that sweet spot :D
If you already have part of the content or older version of files with small changes, 'rsync -P -z...' is the way to go.