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A look at rsync performanceA look at rsync performancePosted Aug 20, 2010 12:28 UTC (Fri) by dsommers (subscriber, #55274)In reply to: A look at rsync performance by NAR Parent article: A look at rsync performance
True ... but if you have a lot of files, especially smaller files, the tar path with ssh is way faster than scp. Try copying a git repository (~2-3MB) from one site to another site. My experiences is that tar+ssh beats scp significantly.
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A look at rsync performance Posted Aug 20, 2010 14:52 UTC (Fri) by spaetz (subscriber, #32870) [Link]
> but if you have a lot of files, especially smaller files, the tar path with ssh is way faster than scp. Try copying a git repository (~2-3MB) from one site to another site. My experiences is that tar+ssh beats scp significantly.
Only because you open a new ssh connection per file by default and tar+ssh opens only one. Which causes lots of overhead. If you reuse your ssh connection scp will be fast as well:
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