[lug] ssh compression

[Sexton, George]

The best solution I have found for things like this is to write a cron job
that bzips the data, pipes the output through gpg, and then use FTP to move
the encrypted data. You could use NCFTPGET at the destination site to
retrieve the file. I move a client's SQL Database to my site once a week
this way. 2.5GB compresses down to 350MB. I also do it early in the morning,
so it doesn't use bandwidth during production hours.



-----Original Message-----
From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]On
Behalf Of Hugh Brown
Sent: 01 May, 2002 10:04 AM
To: LUG
Subject: [lug] ssh compression


I am doing an over the net backup of a mail server over an ssh tunnel.
The bandwidth that it is consuming is killing me.  Is there any way to
throttle it down?  Would using the compression option in ssh help me or
hurt me (the man page says it would slow it down, but I don't know if
that means less bandwidth, longer download or same bandwidth, longer
download).

This is being done over a 1Mbps DSL line (on both ends).

TIA,

Hugh



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