[brlug-general] Windows to Linux via SSH (recommendations for SSH clients that can handle some heavy lifting)

[Will Hill]

120 Gigs will take a day or so if you have all of a T-1.  If it's important, 
you might be better off copying the files to another drive and overnighting 
it.

(120e9) bytes / 1.5e6 (bytes/second) = 80e3 seconds / 3.6e3 (seconds/hour) = 
22 hours.

If you don't have time for cygwin, you might want to find a live CD like 
knoppix with rsync on it.  rsync can use sftp:

http://sial.org/howto/rsync/
http://archive.cs.stedwards.edu/knoppix/packages.txt





On Tuesday 06 June 2006 03:46 pm, -k. wrote:
> I need to transfer around 70,000 files (about 120 gigs) from an old Windows
> 2000 machine to a Linux box someplace out on the internet. When in the
> Windows world i usually use SSH Communications Security's SSH Tectia
> Client, it works really well, but i'm afraid it may balk at the number of
> files/data and i won't be in a place where i can keep an eye on the 2000
> machine the whole time.
>
> Does anyone know of a reliable Windows SSH client that can do this sort of
> thing easily? This is a one off gig so i don't want to spend too much time
> setting up/ learning a new piece of software. Assume setting up Cygwin (or
> whatever) and taking the drive out are not options.