Re: Speed Difference SCP vs. RCP

From: Michael (michaeln_at_twentyten.org)
Date: 01/25/05 

Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 01:44:18 -0800

"Nico Kadel-Garcia" <nkadel@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:9cedncberMAckmvcRVn-jA@comcast.com...

[snip]

> Bad! Bad! No sys-admin biscuit!
>
> Don't use scp or rcp for backups, because they will duplicate the contents
> of symbolic links rather than the link itself. It only takes one symbolic
> link back up to / to explode your backup system.

Eh.... I just didn't fully explain what I was doing. The nightly backups
are done using rsync. The backups of a quickly changing mail system (large
mbox files that are constantly being appended to) are done using
rdiff-backup. What I'm doing is somewhat inconsequential because the basic
issue of SCP vs. RCP still exists either way.

[snip]

Michael

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