On 12/16 06:38 , Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 12/15 05:42 , Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > The other one isn't even close to finishing, as far as I can tell. > > In the face of it taking nigh-on 5 hours just to *walk the tree*, > > from the local host, I haven't been focusing on little things like > > ssh encryption choices too much. :) > > So you're convinced the speed bottleneck is firmly on the filesystem/disk > array? > > I've noticed that changing the SSH cipher helps substantially sometimes; but > sometimes (often?) not much. It's a worthwhile optimization when it works > tho. I think I've seen 10-15% improvement in backup times. > > As for your link issues; the suggestion that it may be a keepalive problem > reminded me of this tool: > http://freshmeat.net/projects/openssh-watchdog > > It may be worth trying that.
According to the main page for the openssh-watchdog: http://www.sc.isc.tohoku.ac.jp/~hgot/sources/openssh-watchdog.html It looks like Debian has a patch that provides this functionality already. Down at the bottom of the page it lists other tools with similar functionality, including: "OpenSSH package from Debian (`ProtocolKeepAlive' option)" -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
