Re: Re: Copying a large file (6Gigs) across the network and deleting it at source location

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Doing a checksum will effectively double the transfer time because the files need to be read back from the remote location. Especially since a network filesystem copy is fairly reliable since the OS does some error recovery.

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Re: Re: Re: Copying a large file (6Gigs) across the network and deleting it at source location by allolex (Curate) on Feb 05, 2004 at 08:15 UTC
Well, yes. That's a good point. But no one said the checksum has to be done from the remote system. ;) -- Allolex	[reply]

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