It brings me great joy to know that my original post has spawned such
madness.
:-)
John Jolet wrote:
>> I read something some time ago that suggested if you transfer a
>> compressed file over a compressed SFTP connection, for example, that it
>> would take longer to transfer the data versus if only the data or the
>> connection was compressed. The reason, as I recall, had to do with
>> compressing already compressed data--this apparently created some
>> overhead on the connection.
>>
>> Did you look at this situation in your tests? If so, what were the
>> results?
>>
> No, I see absolutely no reason to use sftp. Just scp. By default,
> compression is off on that, unless you've modified your ssh_conf.
> But I have heard the same thing about doubly-compressing things.
>
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