[plug] scp

[Richard Meyer]

On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 10:14 +0900, rennie wrote:
> Why would ...
> 
> # scp -pr -P 13713 /home/rennie/ root at 10.1.1.8:/home/LaptopBackup
> 
> ... create +100GB on from c.a. 10GB of data?
> 
> Have I missed some thing?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Rennie
> ________

Copying a sparse file, maybe? Reference -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_files

-- 
Richard Meyer
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. 
William Pitt, 1783

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