Re: rsync over ssh/nfs (was: server crashing)

["Niels Dettenbach (Syndicat IT&Internet)" <nd%syndicat.com@localhost>]

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Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost> schrieb:

>On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 07:30:21AM +0200, Niels Dettenbach (Syndicat
>IT&Internet) wrote:
>>
>> David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost> schrieb:
>> >As an aside I've found rsync over NFS substantially faster than over
>> >ssh for
>> >large files on lowish (HP microserver amd64) spec boxes.
>>
>> This is to expect as a SSH connection by principe adds much more
>processing overhead (crypto, TCP) then a typical NFS connection.
>
>No, it is *not*.   Using rsync "over NFS" is tantamount to not using
>rsync at all, since the entire file contents flow over the network.
>
>The only cases in which it should actually be faster are if there
>are ...
>the files are very large and almost their entire contents have
>changed.

Afaik this is the case discussed here?...

Sorry if i was a little bit unclear here...


Niels.
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Niels Dettenbach
Syndicat IT&Internet
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