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		nh2 3 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync)... 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.

Dunedan 3 days ago [–]

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.

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