On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 03:27:32PM -0600, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 14:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > it just hovers at about 300kb/s.... I would expect that when the file > > > listing is sent, for there to be a heavy load on the network at that > > > time, and then some heavy cpu work, and then more load on the network > > > as it hits files that > > > needs to backup..... > > rsync is surprisingly inefficient at file transfers. It's often several > times slower than even tar over ssh. try moving a big (several times larger > than RAM) over the network, using rsync, tar over ssh, and tar over netcat. > rsync will be by far the slowest.
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