<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>No, what happens with ssh is that the local rsync launches a remote rsync command and the two rysnc commands talk via the rsync protocol. If fact, there's an option on rsync "--rsync-path" where you can give the remote location of rsync. We sometimes specify a script in place of the rsync executable so we can call nice and ionice on the remote side ahead of the executable.<br><br>Scott<div><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Todor Fassl" <fassl.tod@gmail.com><br><b>To: </b>jimkinney@gmail.com, "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale@ale.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, October 27, 2015 10:49:46 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] best way to copy 3Tb of data<br><br>I know you don't need to have an rsync server to copy files via rsync <br>but from what I've read, rsync protocol is way fater than ssh. And you <br>have to have an rsync server to use the rsync protocol, right?<br></div></div></div></body></html>