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ftp very inefficient for large numbers of files

Asked by HappyEngineer in File Transfer Protocol (FTP), FTP Servers, Unix Networking

Tags: ssh ftp

I've found that uploading a directory tree with lots of files in it can take a long time whereas zipping up the files, uploading the archive, and unzipping is much faster.

The difference can be huge, on the order of 1 minute instead of 30 minutes.

Is there a file transfer protocol or a better ssh+sftp client which will upload a directory tree in a time efficient manner? Theoretically an efficient client could just use ssh+sftp and just do all the steps automatically for me. I'd log in once with an interface that looks like an ftp client, but when I drag a directory tree on it to upload, it actually zips it up on the client side, uploads it, then unzips it on the server side.

Other multi-file operations could be handled better as well. Right now, using an ftp/sftp client to delete a directory tree will take forever. It actually deletes each file one at a time. I usually ssh into the system and rm -rf the tree.

Is there anything like that?

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ftp very inefficient for large numbers of files

Asked by HappyEngineer in File Transfer Protocol (FTP), FTP Servers, Unix Networking

Tags: ssh ftp

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