Re: can sftp be made multi-threaded?

Reply: Jason Bacon : "Re: can sftp be made multi-threaded?"
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From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek_at_puchar.net>
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2023 20:20:22 UTC

>
> Can sftp be made multi-threaded? Would rsync-over-ssh accomplish the same 
> thing?
>
> The issue I'm having is with large backups taking ages to transfer
> even with both source and destination being on gigabit fibre.

simply divide it to smaller parts and run them in parallel

>
> It looks like sftp is single-threaded and the bandwidth per thread is
> something like 5-50 Mbps and it's nowhere near saturating the bandwidth.

Mb or MB?