SCP speed question

[Alma J Wetzker]

Bill Campbell wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for the tip, I will give it a try.

    -- Alma