Re: what's wrong with rsync?
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:01:14PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote:
>On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 22:39, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
>>
>> Be sure and use it only behind a good firewall, in a trusted LAN. The
>> whole r* (rsync, rsh, etc.) series is wildly insecure.
>
>Well, (according to the manpage) it uses rsh by default, but it can use
>ssh as an alternative.
right. you can setup a public rsync server so people can mirror your
tree easily, but if a lot of people do, it will eat up your server
resources.
otherwise, use '-e ssh' for syncing over insecure links, actually that's
the only way I do non public rsyncs.
it's a very cool tool. I typically use "rsync -avessh --delete ./here/
user@host:there/" in most cases the default "checksum blocking size"
is way too small, try using "--block-size=10000 --checksum" if you're
mirroring cd ISOs.
// George
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