On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 15:52, Scott St. John wrote: > Or tar + plain rsh, no need to encrypt all that with ssh. Takes ages.
ssh1 is a faster protocol than ssh2. Blowfish is a faster encryption than triple DES (the default). Use ssh1 and Blowfish instead of ssh2 and triple DES and you can increase the speed by as much as a factor of 6 (depending on hardware). Also transfer gzip compressed data. Using the -z option of tar takes better advantage of SMP systems than the -C option of scp, and compression is a fast operation, if the data compresses reasonably well (EG email) then the reduction in size (and therefore encryption work) saves time). I've written cron jobs to transfer multiple gigabyte files every night... > Heh, I have been sitting here with Perl and Awk books all morning and it's > really this simple? You guys are going to have me off my Windows > desktop completely if this keeps up :) That's the aim. Have you tried out kde 3.1? A KDE system with some expect scripts and ssh-agent makes a really good management system for servers. I used to run about 40 Solaris servers in such a fashion. I had setup scripts to do tasks such as run commands or install packages on all servers at once. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
