ahistorical immaterialistTIL that the scp command does not, by default, compress files it transfers, and that you need to add the -C flag to make it do that, and by doing that I have sped up my transfer speed about 40x, and without this knowledge I have probably wasted literally days of my life waiting for things in the past.
Hynek Schlawack@jimbob Also scp is actually deprecated which keeps boggling my mind.
⛧TJC⛧@hynek @jimbob what is the source for this? What’s the “official” replacement? I would have assumed even rsync was built on scp
That said, I see no reason to use scp over rsync. Yes , I can never remember all the flags, but that’s what shell aliases are for, since you only need a small handful of combinations to do anything.
@tjc @jimbob Here’s some details: https://lwn.net/Articles/835962/
Not sure at this point if the sftp-based scp that’s teased in the article and IIRC was linked in this thread is more of a stopgap or the new real thing. I personally prefer scp too because it’s just simpler and less dangerous to use.