Jeff Abrahamson on Wed, 4 Jul 2001 08:40:05 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] ssh / scp vs rsync weirdness


On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 03:16:05PM -0400, Mental wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 01:50:27PM -0400, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> > I've noticed that rsyncing a huge amount of stuff (several GB) over
> > ssh (rsync --rsh=ssh ...) tends to result in dropped connections (even
> > over local ethernet, but certainly over adsl/cable modem). Moving the
> > same stuff by tarring it and scp'ing the tar file works fine.
> > 
> > This has been pretty repeatable.
> > 
> > Any ideas what might be going on?
> > 
> 
> I had similar problems with a stupid huge cvs repository. Seems there was
> something up in SSH 2.x. I switched over to openssh and it handles binary
> files more gracefully now. What're you using?

openssh on one end, ssh 1.2.27 on the other. Hmm, maybe I should
switching to openssh on both. I'd rather use the GPL one on principle,
anyway.

-- 
 Jeff

 Jeff Abrahamson  <http://www.purple.com/jeff/>



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