Rsync's Speed

[Streubert, Christoph]

I do not know the details of your syntax - however in case you use it -
encryption adds a lot of overhead to the transfer process. After I
turned off encryption (internal network with uncritical data) speeds
increased dramatically.

C



-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Wolber [mailto:chuckw at quantumlinux.com] 
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 10:30 AM
To: Steve Sills
Cc: rsync at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: Rsync's Speed




> During my initial download for my home directory backup, it took rsync

> over 6 hours to do the initial backup, but I can FTP the stuff in 
> about 30 Mins.  Is Rsync usualy this slow? I have compression turned 
> on, and its across a 100 MB/S network, Anyone had this problem before?

In this case, I believe compression is actually slowing you down. 

-Chuck


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