Re: Migrating database from Windows to Linux

Interestingly, this crops up in discussions in the Internet.

One discussion seems to indicate that pscp is (was?) strictly syncronous.
http://serverfault.com/questions/683329/copying-over-ssh-via-putty-tools-is-slower-than-via-winscp

One test might be to check other SCP tools, such as WinSCP or Filezilla.

/Hans

On 2017-03-02 1:23 PM, Hans Forbrich wrote:
> Other things to check:
> - Age of the pscp client ... used to be an OpenSSH bug that slowed
> things down
> - Buffer size in pscp
> (http://laurentschneider.com/wordpress/2011/05/scp-tuning.html)
> /Hans
>
> On 2017-03-02 1:04 PM, Hans Forbrich wrote:
>> pscp rides on the ssh protocol which encrypts traffic.
>> Samba/SMB/CIFS does not have the encryption requirement.
>>
>> /Hans
>>
>> On 2017-03-02 12:37 PM, Beckstrom Jeffrey wrote:
>>> We are copying our database files and have noticed some strange results.
>>>
>>> Copying from Windows to a Linux server using putty (pscp) is orders
>>> of magnitude slower than copying to a samba drive and then moving
>>> the files to the Linux server. Can someone suggest places to look as
>>> to why copying directly to the Linux server is so much slower?
>>
>

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