ssh:// performance compared to rsync

[Massimo-B]

Hello,

first of all thanks for the continued development here, after I'm using unison for many years now.

I'm using unison on davfs2 mounts and cifs mounts. cifs mount via VPN is very slow. However rsync to OpenSSH Servers is quite efficient via VPN. What about using ssh:// targets in unison, is that using SFTP just like scp does? Is that as efficient as rsync? As workaround I think about some gateway server behind the VPN, that does locally mount cifs and that I can use via unison and ssh:// . .Any idea about that?

[gdt]

Please use the mailinglist for questions. as documented in https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison/wiki/Reporting-Bugs-and-Feature-Requests

Please add a followup comment here explaining how you came to enter a question in the bug tracker without having read the above link.

[Massimo-B]

Sorry, I wasn't aware about the mailing list and did forward the idea there...

[Massimo-B]

Ok, it's not working, I mailed to unison-users@seas.upenn.edu I received a Delivery Status Notification (Failure):

``` From: Mail Delivery Subsystem Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure) Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2023 04:36:38 -0800 (PST) Hello ... We're writing to let you know that the group you tried to contact (unison-u= sers) may not exist, or you may not have permission to post messages to the= group. A few more details on why you weren't able to post: * You might have spelled or formatted the group name incorrectly. * The owner of the group may have removed this group. * You may need to join the group before receiving permission to post. * This group may not be open to posting. If you have questions related to this or any other Google Group, visit the = Help Center at https://support.google.com/a/seas.upenn.edu/bin/topic.py?top= ic=3D25838. Thanks, seas.upenn.edu admins ----- Original message ----- ... ```

Ok, it might be required to join the group, is it? Is there any archive of that list without having to subscribe to it? If so, please add a link to the wiki. On https://groups.google.com/ I tried searching for "unison-users" in "All groups and messages" and only found linux.debian.bugs.dist and some messages about old http://groups.yahoo.com/group/unison-users/

"Gruppen 0 Gruppen stimmen mit der Suchanfrage "unison-users" überein which means, 0 groups matching "unison-users". And I did that search while being registered at Google.

[gdt]

https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison/wiki/Mailing-Lists

These days pretty much all lists require subscribing to post. I just added an explicit note about that.

There is some sort of archive/group page, but when you go to that URL (without being logged in to google at least), you get a "you don't have permission to view this page" error. I'm not willing to add links to pages that aren't available to not-logged-in users. (Yes, it's a bug we are using google groups, and there is an open issue about this.)

[Massimo-B]

Ok thanks, trying soon with a subscribed address, though for Google groups I prefer the Google web interface.. I can't find the home of that google group, eventhough I'm logged in to Google. Please mention the home URL of the google group while adding the note about being subscribed at Google to view it.

If you are searching for an alternative to Google groups, look if github has alternatives. Adding another type like "Question" or "Discussion" beside "Bug" to the issues, you could use this here for discussions as well, other projects are doing so. Otherwise I'm not sure if github also hosts some sort of forums.

[tleedjarv]

https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison/issues/871#issuecomment-1856055324