SCP speed question

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
>What speed should you get with scp on a 100 Mb/s backbone?  I backup my
>home directory with scp to my server and I am getting 3.8 MB/s.  That
>seems a bit slow to me.

You would probably be better to use rsync to do the backups as it
minimizes the amount of network traffic, and, with the --delete
option, will remove old files from the server that have been
deleted from your home directory.

Bill
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