[ale] Still using plain FTP? Why?

[JD]

On 01/20/2015 08:01 AM, Raj Wurttemberg wrote:
> My biggest battle lately is transferring many (4,000+) large (100+GB) files
> and needing to do parallel transfers to fully utilize the (internal) pipe. At
> the moment, we are transferring the data from a 3TB HD (USB3) over 1G
> ethernet.  I'm using rsync to copy the files. Security or encryption is not
> needed (the files are actually encrypted) because all of the file transfers
> are on the internal LAN (there is no Internet access).
> 

rsync uses ssh to do network transfers by default (for the last 8 yrs at least),
so you might be encrypting without meaning to.

rsync manpage:
"Typically, rsync is configured to use ssh by
 default, but you may prefer to use rsh on a local network."