[CentOS] Tar so slow! Is there anything faster?

[Les Mikesell]

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.

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   Les Mikesell
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