Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2015 18:58:26 -0500 From: "Michael B. Eichorn" <ike@michaeleichorn.com> To: Patrick Hess <patrickhess@gmx.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Synchronizing directory hierarchies via SFTP Message-ID: <1449532706.6801.2.camel@michaeleichorn.com> In-Reply-To: <3931169.O6iNsM7Ae5@desk8.phess.net> References: <13761006.QDN0LtKzYl@desk8.phess.net> <F97F8743-4662-405D-B258-FBF980EF1465@elde.net> <3931169.O6iNsM7Ae5@desk8.phess.net>
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On Tue, 2015-12-08 at 00:08 +0100, Patrick Hess wrote: > Terje Elde wrote: > > You could mount the sftp locally (sshfs, fuse?), and then use rsync > > as if with two local dirs? > > Thanks, that's definitely an interesting option that didn't come > to my mind. > > > (If that will be efficient depends a lot on your workload) > > Based on my previous experience with FUSE a couple of years ago, > I'm actually more concerned about the reliability of this solution. > In my case I'm looking at some 1800 files, for a total of 3.4 GB, > of which about 300 MB will change weekly. Is this a workload FUSE > could be trusted with nowadays or am I likely to run into issues > in the long term? I havn't used it on a FreeBSD rig, but I use sshfs regularly on my Linux rigs and it has been reliable and surprisingly performant. I don't know how similar/different the Linux and FreeBSD fuse implementations are so, YMMV.
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