[Zope] OT: ftp vs scp

[Jerome Alet]

On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Oleg Broytmann wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 03:05:42PM +0100, Jerome Alet wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Oleg Broytmann wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 02:43:14PM +0100, Mitch Pirtle wrote:
> > > > Ftp is a bad habit, like smoking cheap cigarettes.  Move up
> > > > to a big fat cigar, scp.
> > > > 
> > > > 	http://www.openssh.org/
> > > 
> > >    I disagree. You can run ftp-over-securechannel. But FTP is still better
> > > tham scp (if you menat scp). FTP, for example, supports "reget" - i.e. it
> > > can to restore (continue) aborted download. Scp cannot do it.
> > 
> > rsync ?
> 
>    Possible, but what are benefits of rsync over FTP?

tunnelling over ssh or native rsync protocol
transparent compression
more easily scriptable
...

hth.

Jerome Alet