Which is more efficient: rsync over ssh or rsync to a drive mounted locally via ssh tunnel
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I am trying to set up some scripts to perform nightly backups to a remote drive. I'm wondering if it is better (when considering both efficiency and data integrity) to: A: rsync over an ssh tunnel, or B: mount the drive locally over an ssh tunnel using a program such as ExpanDrive (http://www.expan…
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The RSync option will be FAR better. When RSync is running over SSH, it actually uses both system's processors when doing file comparison. Basically, rsync runs on both devices (literally, rsync connects to the remote device using ssh, executes the …
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