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Subject : Re: LUG: Slow transfer using SFTP/SCP

From : Alexander Ray <alexjray.ncsu@gmail.[redacted]>

Date : Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:15:34 -0500

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This depends on what you're transferring, but is it easily compressible then you can have SCP compress/decompress the data so there is less of it being transferred

Compressed images (e.g. JPEGs) dont compress well, so you dont get a lot of speedup.

Regular text files (like source code) can usually be compressed before transfer and uncompressed at the end.

'man scp' for more infos.

~Alex