Re: openssh: Limiting bandwidth on ssh (stdin-to-dd)

Hi,

  I use 'unison'.... It works very nicely for this type of application....

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

Dave
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On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Nate Itkin wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 09:56:22AM -0500, Mark Holden wrote:
> > I'm looking at using "ssh" from the openssh package, to perform secure
> > backups of large directories from a local server to a remote server as
> > in the following command executed on the local server.
> > > tar -cf - ./test_dir | ssh user@remote-server dd of=test_dir.tar
> > Ie., I don't want to first create the tar file on the local system then
> > use scp to copy it off, as there may not be enough disk storage on the
> > local system to create the tar file. However, I cannot seem to find any
> > way, for the above style of transfer using ssh, to do something like the
> > "-l" option of scp to limit the amount of bandwidth used during the
> > transfer.
> > Does anybody know of a way?
> > Thanks,
> > Mark
>
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> cstream might do the job for you.
> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/cstream.html
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> Nate Itkin
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