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cnvogel on April 2, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Netcat – The swiss army knife of networking

/me too/

I like it (tar|nc) as a quick alternative when moving data to or from low performance devices such as Android phones. Rsync/SSH really burns a lot of power for encryption. Makes a full x GB Backup much faster to pipe it through netcat (or bashs /dev/tcp if available).

philsnow on April 2, 2013 [–]

this can help re CPU usage:

    rsync -e "ssh -c blowfish"

However, I'm not sure if anybody uses this these days, since end-to-end time is probably dominated by bandwidth and not cpu these days.

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