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sftp, rsync, scp using the sftp protocol in the background (which is now the default).
by sigio 5y ago
sftp, rsync, scp using the sftp protocol in the background (which is now the default).
- lxgr 5y agoscp and sftp make sense, but is that really the case for rsync? As far as I remember, rsync does a few neat tricks like hashing files on both sides of a connection to determine whether it's worth transferring them over a potentially slow connection, which would not work with pure sftp.
- nybble41 5y agoYou're correct, rsync operates over SSH (or its own native protocol) but runs a copy of the rsync binary on the remote side rather than using the SFTP subsystem.