Copying binaries to new server

[David King]

> Ugh...my ssh session to the new (remote) server was killed,  
> presumably when
> restore overwrote something sshd needed.  I was able to telnet back  
> in,
> restart sshd and get back in, but since I was doing the restore  
> interactively,
> and not in the background, was the restore interrupted?

I highly recommend screen (misc/screen) for this sort of thing. Then  
you can lose your connection without killing foreground processes,  
and even detach and reattach the terminal later