[lug] Hosting Question

[Jeffrey Siegal]

On Sep 30, 2006, at 16:20 , Bear Giles wrote:

> dio2002 at indra.com wrote:
>> Any thoughts on securing rysync over the public nw?
>> Or maybe there is another nw backup method/service i could/should  
>> be using
>> other than rsync?
>>
> I'm becoming a fan of OpenVPN instead of SSH tunnels.  Several  
> reasons:
>
> 1) you don't have TCP-over-TCP issues when there's packet loss.

There are no TCP-over-TCP issues with SSH tunnels, unless you're  
using them to run PPP or something. Don't do that.

Other points are good though.