I've noticed a marked slowness in transfer rates after switching to rsync (from ftp) for mirroring purposes.
Our script (which runs the rsync line taken from the mirroring page at apache.org and then does some minor local adjustments such as moving things from tmp to the ftp area, etc.) begins to run at around 3:30/4am and often does not finish until late afternoon. using ftp under these same circumstances (time, script, etc.) was much quicker and took under an hour or two. i recall some mention of disallowing ftp for mirroring. this is a concern of mine as i feel as though rsync may be causing more bandwidth usage problems (given that it is running during business hours/busier traffic hours) than it is worth. i would appreciate some thoughts on this. has anyone else expressed any feelings corroberating my above statements? thanks much, .april
