Rsync's Speed

[Steve Sills]

Well, it is running under SSH, that could slow it down i guess....

Steve Sills
Platnum Computers, President
http://www.platnum.com
steve at platnum.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Streubert, Christoph" <Christoph.Streubert at disney.com>
To: "Chuck Wolber" <chuckw at quantumlinux.com>; "Steve Sills"
<steve at platnum.com>
Cc: <rsync at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 12:52 PM
Subject: RE: Rsync's Speed


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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