Mike Egglestone wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to copy a huge file from one server to another. > but because it takes a long time, I would like to exit > my remote shell that I used to login and run the scp command. > > I have tried with the " & " symbol after the command but no go. > ex. > scp /home/user/file.txt bigserver:/home/user2/ & > > Is there any way to do this without generating a new passwordless ssh key > and using the " -i " option with scp? I could do it this way, but it > takes me too long > to create all the keys and edit the authorized_keys file all the time. >
One thing that speeds up scp tremendously is to add a -c blowfish to the command. There may be patent issues or something, but the transfers are much faster.
