On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Rudi Starcevic wrote:
> Hi,
>
> An option may be to use SSH with RSYNC instead of SCP.
> The Rsync command has a bandwidth limit option.
>
> I use it like this:
>
> rsync -avz --bwlimit 10 -e ssh remoteuser@remotehost:/remote/dir /this/dir/
>
> Check the 'man' pages for more info on the 'bwlimit' option.
The main caveat here is that it requires that rsync be installed on both
ends. Rsync is a great tool under ssh, but, still is not all that common.
Especially with main vendor *nix's
Thanks,
Ron DuFresne
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