[plug] [Rant/Cry for Help] SSH SO SLOW

[Tomasz Grzegurzko]

On 11/16/06, Timothy White <weirdit at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > What about plain vanilla ftp? Why encrypt at all? Surely even Mac
> > supports a little known protocol called FTP?
>
> Hmmm, so it does :p
>
> I guess I forgot to mention that I do need some sort of remote command
> facility, as it's a little like rsync, in that it only transfers the
> differences. (rdiff-backup is very nice).
> I think rsh would do what I need, which under Debian, by default is
> redirected to ssh :(
>
> I think I'll just have to put up with arcfour as my default cipher.
> It's just during the initial backup that I'm worried, and I might be
> able to use rsync then, IF I can get a version on the mac supporting
> resource forks. Otherwise, it may turn out a bit funny. I'll work
> something out, or just have it take a number of hours for the initial
> backup :p
>
> Thanks
>
> Tim


Install Gentoo on that machine? That will give you a few extra cycles ;)

Tomasz