alt Hacker NewsCompression is off by default in OpenSSH, at least `man 5 ssh_config` says:
> Specifies whether to use compression. The argument must be yes or no (the default).
So I'm surprised you see speedups with your invocation.
Compression is off by default in OpenSSH, at least `man 5 ssh_config` says:
> Specifies whether to use compression. The argument must be yes or no (the default).
So I'm surprised you see speedups with your invocation.
Good point. Seems like I enabled it in ~/.ssh/config ages ago and did forget about it. Nonetheless, it's good to check whether it's enabled when using rsync to transfer large, already well compressed files.