[brlug-general] Windows to Linux via SSH (recommendations for SSH clients...

[John Hebert]

> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 21:18:59 -0500
> From: Will Hill <williamhill2 at cox.net>
> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Windows to Linux via
> SSH (recommendations
> 	for	SSH clients that can handle some heavy lifting)
> To: General at brlug.net
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> <200606062118.59614.williamhill2 at cox.net>
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> 
> 120 Gigs will take a day or so if you have all of a
> T-1.  If it's important, 
> you might be better off copying the files to another
> drive and overnighting 
> it.
> 
> (120e9) bytes / 1.5e6 (bytes/second) = 80e3 seconds
> / 3.6e3 (seconds/hour) = 
> 22 hours.
> 
> If you don't have time for cygwin, you might want to
> find a live CD like 
> knoppix with rsync on it.  rsync can use sftp:
> 
> http://sial.org/howto/rsync/
> http://archive.cs.stedwards.edu/knoppix/packages.txt

I agree with Will: use a bootable Linux CD with rsync.
Most any bootable Linux CD will have rsync, which can
use ssh as the shell mechanism to connect to the the
remote server.

List of bootable Linux CDs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveCD
(weird. doesn't mention FeatherLinux
(http://featherlinux.berlios.de) which is a great
small bootable Linux distro)

Rsync does a whole lot more than scp or sftp can by
itself, especially with the various problems that
could come up with copying 120GBs of data (broken
transmission, etc).

http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/

Also, rsync can throttle the bandwidth if needed.

You will do something like this:
(boot Linux CD)
mkdir /mnt/windowsdrive
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/windowsdrive
rsync --recursive --bwlimit=KBPS /mnt/windowsdrive
user at remotelinuxserver:/destination/path

Another option is to use Unison, which works on both
Windows and Linux:

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

g'luck!

john


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