Re: Aspera SCP software

[Ed Wilts <ewilts ewilts org>]

On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 11:19:38AM -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 10:04 -0500, Ed Wilts wrote:
> > We're currently looking at the Aspera SCP software for intercontinental
> > file transfers.  Our initial tests have been successful (and much faster
> > than FTP) but I'd like to know if anybody else is running it and what
> > the opinions of both the company and product are.
> > 
> 
> Is there a reason that the plain old scp (part of OpenSSH) can't be
> used?  

These aren't Linux clients - they're Windows desktops (sorry, I don't
control them).

> I use rsync -uvr --delete -e ssh to do secure synchronization
> between servers.  It's pretty smart - only copies what needs to be
> copied.

I've mentioned in another post that this isn't a "copy what needs to be
copied" type of activity - I've used rsync for that a bunch of times.
In this application, every file to be copied will be a brand new file.

I am looking at some of the bandwidth limiting features of scp now and
we'll see if we can do some performance tests - limiting bandwidth with
Aspera SCP and openssh scp and see what the difference is.

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