Transferring Files to New Ubuntu System

Brian McKee brian.mckee at gmail.com
Tue Nov 25 21:31:01 UTC 2008


On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Hakan Koseoglu
<hakan.koseoglu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Potentially scp and rsync should be better but interestingly, between
> my laptop and dinky file server copying 10MB of /dev/urandom data
> works faster on rsync. I must have configured something different
> somewhere. :-)

I just fired a 5 meg file thru the VPN - 36 seconds for rsync, 45
seconds for scp.

So, rsync seems to be better.

I haven't tried with -e rsh (as opposed to ssh) as I'd have to start
changing firewalls to allow it.

Brian




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