[svlug] Mass copying

[Rick Moen]

begin Aaron Lehmann quotation:

> That's one disgusting URL.

Isn't it just?
 
> Their instructions seem quite informative. One area where I disagree
> is their reccomendation of gzip compression.

I believe that's in anticipation of the lower part, where it's
generalised to copying between hosts.  But yes.  Your point is well
taken.

> Apparently the --sparse flag can fix this.

The Unix greybeards don't seem to trust it, from what I've heard.

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