Re: [tlug] Re: rsync efficiency (was: The Mother of All (bash) Commands)

[Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com>]

david.blomberg wrote:
> In my last set of test runs small file using rsync actually was much 
> quicker than scp-all-files and the tar-scp-untar methods the reason 
> the scp was so slow was each file hardly got up to speed on the 
> transfer before starting the next file (I never even came close to 
> getting up to a decent transfer rate except for the larger files).  
> while in rsync the whole thing seemed to  be happening over one 
> established connection the and transfer rate stayed fairly high the 
> whole time.  The tar-scp-untar well just too slow pre and post 
> processing made it a dog.  I actually am moving back to using rsync 
> after a long time of hating it.
>
> but to each their own run some test and see what kind of results you 
> get; before deciding which method to use.

how does it go with

# tar -cf - .|ssh remote 'tar -xf -'

Edward