Re: Rsync over SSH v2 with strong authentication but not encrypted to get the highest speed on Rsync?

2003-01-15 Thread Jim Kleckner
Also, if any of the clients are windows clients, there is a known problem that the small packet sizes used by the common rsync versions cause some kind of massive performance problem that appears attributed to ssh or rsync. Buffering patches dramatically speed up rsync. Jim Aaron Morris wrote

Re: rsync release planning

2003-07-08 Thread Jim Kleckner
jw schultz wrote: On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:51:16AM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 10:30:13PM -0700, jw schultz wrote: ... I'm also wondering about the craigb-perf patch. Anyone know how widely it has been tested? I've been wondering about it as well. I've looked over th

Re: using rsync with ssh to distribute to multiple hosts

2003-09-04 Thread Jim Kleckner
Good suggestions. Also, if you are uncomfortable with an empty passphrase and can tolerate entering it once per session, you can use ssh-agent to hold the credential in memory. The keychain script is also useful to locate an ssh-agent to be used from unrelated non-child shells. Jim Eric Whiting

Re: rsync for transferring harddrive images

2003-10-14 Thread Jim Kleckner
jw schultz wrote: On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 01:14:37PM +0200, chris at chrisburkert.de wrote: Hi, I have a project where I have to backup (copy /dev/hda on a server) and recover (copy back) hardrives from the clients. I tried this with rsync using: BACKUP: rsync /dev/hda [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/pat

Re: cwRsync 2.5.7

2003-12-13 Thread Jim Kleckner
John Hunt wrote: On Wednesday 10 Dec 2003 17:27, John Hunt wrote: Tevfik On Tuesday 09 Dec 2003 18:13, Tevfik KaragÃlle wrote: ... Sorry to report that it hangs at the end of transfer, as did (cygwin packaged) 2.5.6. I have reverted again to 2.5.5 (from an old cygwin installation) that works we

Re: bwlimit=

2004-05-26 Thread Jim Kleckner
Wallace Matthews wrote: Wayne replied to my original note which said that in a special situation that I was using to probe rsync to build a behavioral model that bwlimit= resulted in bimodal behavior around a 4000 kbyte/sec value. [snip] bwlimit is not main line functionality. It is useful for doin

Re: passing ssh password to rsync without prompting it

2004-12-02 Thread Jim Kleckner
Wayne Davison wrote: On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 11:02:15PM -0800, jack alex wrote: So, why it is not picking password from password file and any other idea to pass ssh password to rsync without prompting it. This is because the option only affects rsync's use of an rsync daemon. Rsync has no options

Re: [Bug 2328] cygwin rsync hangs when initiated remotely after transfering some files

2005-03-14 Thread Jim Kleckner
My belief is that rsync over ssh is tickling a deadlock race condition in cygwin. See this message and trace it backwards for more context: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2005-q1/msg00015.html I have recently re-volunteered to the author to help out getting his patches tested but have heard n