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I'm using a cron job to copy a 2 gig file each night. It takes only 30 minutes to copy the file. Yet in the morning I see both computers running at 80% utilitilization and my mrtg graphs shows tons of traffic between the two boxes. If I kill the job the utilization drops as does the traffic on the mrtg graph. Sometimes the file is not even copied.
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I'm using a cron job to copy a 2 gig file each night. It takes only 30 minutes to copy the file. Yet in the morning I see both computers running at 80% utilitilization and my mrtg graphs shows tons of traffic between the two boxes. If I kill the job the utilization drops as does the traffic on the mrtg graph. Sometimes the file is not even copied.

Using SCP to copy a 2 gig file

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