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		brians on Nov 6, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Deprecating scp Rsync has surprised me a few times by needing to read everything on the target side. When that includes a few TB of nonlocal disk—whoops!

schoen on Nov 6, 2020 [–]

It's a clever protocol that optimizes for minimizing network usage. Note that it was written in the 1990s by two Australians!

Sometimes this optimization isn't the exact optimization you want. :-)

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