scp with compression.

• gzip over ssh

  I've kept the gzip compression at a low level, but depending on the cpu power available on the source machine you may want to increase it. However, SQL compresses really well, and I found even with -1 I was able to transfer 40 MiB/s over a 100 mbps wire, which was good enough for me.

  This is sample output - yours may be different.

  
  

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  ssh 10.0.0.4 "cat /tmp/backup.sql | gzip -c1" | gunzip -c > backup.sql
  kennethjor · 2010-02-14 19:09:07 0
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• Speed Up WAN File Transfer With Compression

  If you have servers on Wide Area Network (WAN), you may experience very long transfer rates due to limited bandwidth and latency. To speed up you transfers you need to compress the data so you will have less to transfer. So the solution is to use a compression tools like gzip or bzip or compress before and after the data transfer. Using ssh "-C" option is not compatible with every ssh version (ssh2 for instance).

  This is sample output - yours may be different.

  
  

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  ssh 10.0.0.4 "gzip -c /tmp/backup.sql" |gunzip > backup.sql
  ultips · 2012-01-06 17:44:06 0
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You forgot to mention your OS. No such option in my ubuntu scp

zolden · 831 weeks and 2 days ago

The compress option is pretty standard. I have it available on Ubuntu 12.04, Linux Mint 13, FreeBSD 9.2 and 9.3

DaveQB · 586 weeks ago

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