[c-nsp] Large File Transfers

[Dale W. Carder]

On Mar 5, 2008, at 5:36 PM, Ben Steele wrote:
> I'm going to recommend rsync mainly for it's resume of transfer
> ability over scp(given your files sound large), you can tunnel it via
> ssh using a flag like "--rsh=ssh" or similar for security

I would second the use of rsync for it's ability to bail
you out of an incomplete transfer among other things.

If you use either scp or rsync over ssh and you need it to
actually perform like ftp, you probably want to install the
patches available here:
http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/

These patches fix some buffer sizing issues and include a
multi-threaded encryption algorithm.

Cheers,
Dale