Timeline for Combining multiple files without tar
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| Sep 18, 2017 at 21:23 | comment | added | Lizardx | That's the use case I find best for tar or compressed archives, moving many many files to a remote server. The only use case, otherwise as noted, rsync all the way. | |
| Sep 14, 2017 at 16:59 | comment | added | Franz Kafka | The only reason I am tarring these files is because they are going on S3 as well as being copied to different systems. If I was only moving these to different servers, I'd definitely be using rsync. | |
| Sep 14, 2017 at 7:00 | history | edited | Chris Davies | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added example for transferring listed files
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| Sep 13, 2017 at 21:16 | comment | added | crasic | Here is my +1, tar is just a stupid file archive, while it is convenient, they are spending all this crazy disk I/O just to copy the files into a single File. If you are unpacking anyway, and its a single distribution to a specific PC, you way as well just do one copy instead of 3. For larger distribution networks, consider using a clustered/distributed FS | |
| Sep 13, 2017 at 17:39 | history | answered | Chris Davies | CC BY-SA 3.0 |