[Gllug] scp bigfile support (was: automagic DISPLAYs)

[Bruce Richardson]

On 9/18/01, 2:01:44 PM, Alex Hudson <home at alexhudson.com> wrote regarding 
[Gllug] scp bigfile support (was: automagic DISPLAYs):


> On Tuesday 18 September 2001 13:52, you wrote:
> > Speaking of scp, does anyone know about getting a version of scp with
> > large file support?

> Nope.

> Have you thought of rsync? I don't know if it supports large files, but 
it
> seems so excellent in all other respects I would be surprised if it 
didn't.

AFAIK and IME rsync handles any file size.  I currently have it happily 
backing up gigabytes of data from our regional offices.  And what a 
cuddly little bandwidth-saver it is.

-- 

Bruce

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