[SATLUG] gftp alternative

[Sean Carolan]

On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 20:02, Eli wrote:
> Sean Carolan wrote:
> > Rsync over ssh worked great, and was way
> > faster than ftp would have been for the same task.
> 
> in my experience rsync with encryption and compression has never been as 
> fast as ftp... or rsync without encryption for that matter.
> 
> ymmv
> 
> e

Eli:

I think you might be correct if I were uploading one or a few large files, 
however this project includes hundreds of small files.  The ftp client 
seems to open a new port for each and every file that it transfers, so 
multiply that by several hundred and it takes a while.

Rsync, on the other hand just blazes through the whole directory structure 
with no port switching at all.  Therefore it goes much more quickly.

As far as setting everything to binary goes - is that safe?  I know that 
in the past I have had perl scripts that would not work when I uploaded 
them in binary mode.  Not sure if the same would happen to my php files.