On 11/11/07, Daniel Ouellet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2.3 ============== > Now using scp as many times it's can also be use for quick sync of > changed files. Here however, we are up for a big surprise as well for > sure. Here we can't even do it as the sparse file like in rsync example > #1 will stop as it is to big in size, even if the data however is not. > And we will also waist way more bandwidth trying to do it in the process > as well. If the file was smaller in sparse size, then the copy process > would work, however the waisted bandwidth would be present anyway making > the point of trying to avoid the problem in the first place of > transferring sparse files across file systems. Or at best trying to use > something that would minimize the problem. >
if I'm not completely wrong, you could always tar -czf the sparse file, scp the archive and then tar -xzf the file in place in the other side. this should also create a new sparse file. of course, you lose the rsyncabilty and you have to identify your sparse file in advance. But 16GB of nothing should compress very well ;) --knitti
