Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> I don't think that particular example is a good one since the whole
>> point of the archive is that it should be off-server. If we're going to
>> be exact about the example then we should give a more realistic one,
>> like using scp. Unfortunately, there is no secure-remote-move command,
>> so doing the above with scp would resend the whole file 3 times. I think
>> it's better to write a script...
>
> The problem is that most people do copy the stuff straight out of the
> documentation.  And for those that do write a separate script, there are
> still a lot of possibilities to get it wrong.
>
> There are only about a handful of transportation protocols appearing in
> practice, so it would be very helpful to provide carefully reviewed
> scripts or recipes for these.

I'll try to come up with something, but it will take some time; an impending
addition to the family currently has priority...

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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