Submitted by pcfreak30 on Sat, 02/22/2014 - 20:44
SCP should be replaced with RSYNC for compression abilities and the fact it can auto-create the target folders. It seems its used as a method in attempting to transfer files between systems.
Status:
Closed (works as designed)
Comments
Submitted by JamieCameron on Sat, 02/22/2014 - 22:57 Comment #1
Are you sure that rsync is faster for complete files? scp does compression as well, and typically rsync transfers are done over ssh.
I did a test just now of a 500M file transfer, and both scp and rsync took the same time.
Submitted by pcfreak30 on Sun, 02/23/2014 - 02:14 Comment #2
Eh I just find rsync better.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20244585/what-is-the-difference-betwe... http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/39718/is-there-ever-a-reason-to-... http://superuser.com/questions/393608/difference-between-scp-and-rsync
Just pulled off google. RSYNC seems more advanced than scp so I have made a habbit of using it.
Submitted by JamieCameron on Sun, 02/23/2014 - 11:34 Comment #3
Rsync is better if you are copying a partial file, as it is smart enough to only copy the changed bytes. But for cloudmin's image copy case there is no benefit.