Re: [PLUG] ssh / scp vs rsync weirdness

[Mental <Mental@NeverLight.com>]

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?

--
Mental (Mental@NeverLight.com)

"Christianity makes suffering contagious."
[Friedrich Nietszche]


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