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Date:      Thu, 19 Nov 1998 09:25:21 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Gary Schrock <root@eyelab.psy.msu.edu>
Cc:        miker@scifair.acadiau.ca, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Backing up via rdump using ssh
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9811190924290.2017-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981118151933.00a38a00@eyelab.msu.edu>

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On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Gary Schrock wrote:

> Just to add something here, another thing to do is to try some of the other
> encryption methods.  The default one is pretty slow, so slow machines don't
> do well with it (I couldn't get the tape drive to stream at all when using
> it on the 486dx/66 that the machine used to be).  However, some of the
> other encryptions that ssh offers are faster, and thus would at least let
> you use *some* form of encryption.  I ended up using blowfish because it
> was fast enough that our slow machine was still able to send data fast
> enough to stream the drive.
> 

Our slow machine is a 486/25sx with IDE disks; the tape drive is on a
P120 with SCSI-2.

Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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