[mdlug] sshfs mount

[Mark Thuemmel]

On 12/31/2011 10:46 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-12-30 at 19:19 -0500, Mark Thuemmel wrote:
>> I tend to gravitate to rsync instead of scp because if I get interrupted
>> I can restart where I left off and update the backup without copying
>> everything every time.  I don't know if scp supports restarts.
>
> No, scp does not support restarts.
>
> Depending on the security of the network between the two hosts
> straight-rsync may be much faster than rsync-ver-ssh.  SCP is pretty
> slow for file transfers [floating around are patches for
> unencrypted-ssh, but they haven't made them into any of the
> distributions I'm using;  look for a cypher (-C) specfication of
> "none"].
>

Wouldn't scp unencrypted be pretty much rcp?

rsync with the -z option compresses files that could give a speed 
increase on compressible files.

I guess I was thinking a fairly fast processor on both sides with a 
public Internet connection between.