Biggest problem I find with Fish is that it is extremely slow. In my LAN, maximum speeds for transferring files is about 1mb/sec. FTP is 10-15 times faster between same two computers.
Petri Nicholas Istre wrote: > fish: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Files_transferred_over_shell_protocol > > On Thu, August 30, 2007 5:01 pm, Dustin Puryear wrote: > >> fish? >> >> -- >> Puryear Information Technology, LLC >> Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 >> http://www.puryear-it.com >> >> Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" >> http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices >> >> Identity Management, LDAP, and Linux Integration >> >> >> Joey Kelly wrote: >> >>> Guys, >>> >>> I have a project I'm working on that goes something like this: >>> >>> I want to rsync my backups somewhere off-site before the next monster >>> hurricane kills us all. I do this all the time at several locations in >>> and >>> around floody new Orleans, but I need something out-of-state. I'd like >>> to use >>> some-random-webhost-company.com for off-site storage, since they're >>> cheap. >>> The problem is, I don't want my data to be human-readable on their >>> easily-cracked server. >>> >>> Here's my ideal solution: I can ssh to the web host's server, no >>> problem. I >>> can also mount the server's filesystem via some tool like fish. I want >>> to be >>> able to rsync my stuff over to their server, but I want the files I >>> place >>> there to be encrypted, let's say with GPG. I want some tool running on >>> my >>> desktop here at home to transparently encrypt the files as they are >>> being >>> placed on the remote server. I also want rsync to be able to look into >>> the >>> encrypted files and see only the unencrypted versions, so that rsync >>> will >>> work properly. In other words, I don't want rsync to know anything about >>> the >>> fact that those files are encrypted on the remote server. >>> >>> Thoughts? >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> General at brlug.net >> http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.brlug.net/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20070830/c020355d/attachment-0001.html
