Fundamentally I'm lazy and will often go for the command with the least amount of keystrokes. One thing that I really don't like doing is specifying the port number on these protocols that should be known by the software itself. Therefore, I often opt to omit the -P3306 for my mysql command line client as much as the -P22 in my pscp.
Now as to address the speed issue, there is also an option to enable compression. If this is a large file that is not .zipped (or .tgz) it would then serve to use the -C option. This will enable a fairly decent compression algorhythm. Lol, I misspelled that showing my musical forte. I digress .. Now sir - I'm not a smart man, but I would presume that most who have written such complex systems as these would be, so I can't really tell you much in regards to your particular misfortune of bits. However, it is credit to my copious experience as a linux zealot that I can tell you with an 90%th percentile of accuracy that it may have to do with your actual bandwidth. Perhaps your using a 3G modem? or Tethered to a cell-phone? Perhaps you may even sending via some other means, like - oh look silly me - morose code. See that? "morose?" anyway ..- Just love your machine, understand it has limitations that befall even unto humans. Often however our patience gets the best of us in situations like these and we resort to nasty things like "ctrl-alt-del" or doing such heinous acts as punishing the monitor, or slamming the poor mouse down. Fear not, we have it within us as humans to alter our conscious decisions for the benefit of all mankind - and even machine. Thank you for your time, I hope you read this. Matthew Frederico On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Merrill Oveson <[email protected]> wrote: > >From Windows 2008 I run the following: > > pscp -P22 -pw <password> <user@machine:/directory/file.tgz> <windows 2008 > directory> > > It works, but the ETA is 1766 hours! > > The file is only 252M > > Anybody have any idea why so slow? > What am I doing wrong? > > Merrill > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > -- -- -- Matthew Frederico /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
