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sftp: speed / latency / protocol issues #44
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Interesting: https://rclone.org/sftp/#sftp-chunk-size max_packet_size there: https://docs.paramiko.org/en/latest/api/transport.html#paramiko.transport.Transport |
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Documenting some fundamental issues of the sftp protocol:
paramiko
offers pipelining (write) and prefetching (read) to optimize this andborgstore
uses these features.sftp
is just not a fast protocol andparamiko
is not a fast sftp client implementation either.Thus, using
sftp
is not recommended for big stores nor for high latency connections.We can't do much about that in
borgstore
besides offering alternatives that use other protocols.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: