I have a small NAS box (ReadyNasDUO, runs Debian) that I use for backing up. I used to have a slow 100M/bit switch, so never wondered about why backups were taking forever. Now I've switched to a gigabit switch, and am getting very slow speeds over rsync, while I'm getting ok speeds over Samba.
If I try to rsync one big file from the NAS to my machine, I get around 1.3Mb/s, while dragging it across in Nautilus gives me 25-30Mb/s. Is there a reason for the huge performance hit when using rsync? And is there anyway I can fix this?
p.s. Yes, I know, it's should be possible to get over twice the Samba speed I'm getting, but first I would like to figure out how to get rsync up to similar speeds as Samba.
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