[svlug] help transfering data over 1394 cable

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Scott Hess (scott at doubleu.com):

> These days I'd probably use nc and tar, myself.  Here's a site
> describing the basic idea:
>    http://www.screenage.de/blog/2007/12/30/using-netcat-and-tar-for-network-file-transfer/

nc's awesomely fast -- but adding tar to do the file handling is going
to slow things down pretty badly.

> But, really, who cares?  It seems like for this user, "fastest" may
> not be "bestest".

In view of the desire to move 1.5 TB of video files on a recurring
basis, I'd personally go for fast combined with non-baroque -- and doing
it on a private network segment so as to not have a security problem.
That seems to suggest simple use of rcp.  But Views Differ.<tm>  

> I don't know what the "fish" thing is...

FIles over SsH.  See:  "FISH Protocol" on
http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Security/ .

> but if he's happy with it, it will probably be mostly good.

Well, at least, he'd learn the virtues of patience.  ;->