On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 03:29:12PM -0400, Marty Mulligan wrote:
Why is scp /so much faster/ than rsync here? Is there anything I can do
to improve the speed of these transfers?
Fwiw, this is the rsync command I'm issuing:
rsync -azL --whole-file --stats --progress --delete
Thanks for your suggestions. I'll try to put together an rsync call
with a more explicit set of options, although I was under the
impressions that by having the "dont compress" option set in the conf
file on the server, the -z option in the call from the host was ignored
(which begs the
Marty Mulligan
wrote:
Thanks for
your suggestions. I'll try to put together an rsync call with a more
explicit set of options, although I was under the impressions that by having the
"dont compress" option set in the conf file on the server, the -z option in the
call from the host was
Oh, and in case it helps:
# uname -a
Linux mydomain.com 2.6.10-1.771_FC2 #1 Mon Mar 28 00:50:14 EST 2005 i686
i686 i386 GNU/Linux
# rsync --version
rsync version 2.6.2 protocol version 28
Copyright (C) 1996-2004 by Andrew Tridgell and others
http://rsync.samba.org/
Capabilities: 64-bit
You
should get some better answers, but a couple of points jump out at
me.
If the
files are already compressed, "small" changes result in very different
files,
so the
business of reading both the target and the source to find common stuff is kinda
counterproductive.
Also
the -z
