I usually find the following (executed at the target server) is able to transfer a file much faster than directly scp. However, gzip will consume some CPU. ssh2 source_server 'cat ${FNAME}| gzip -c' | gunzip -c > ${FILELOC}/${FNAME} Yu "Denis" Sun Oracle DBA -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of A Joshi Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 1:38 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: ** ssh to copy/ftp files with compress hi, can someone give example for ssh to copy/ftp files with compress across servers. i did find some eg on net scp [-Cr] /some/file [ more ... ] host.name:/destination/file and -C is for compress - will this use compress? is there a way to use gzip and tell degree of compress. any other suggestion.our network is very slow. thanks.