On Wed, 2012-05-30 at 14:05 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> Using rsync (via ssh), default is aes encryption, which is expensive.
> 
> I wanted to try setting
> 
> Host * Ciphers arcfour,blowfish-cbc
> 
> I put that in user backuppc .ssh/config, but that didn't seem to work 
> (according 
> to the output of ps, not showing the args to ssh).
> 
> I did find that putting it in 
> 
> $Conf{RsyncArgs}
> 
> as
> 
>   '-e "ssh -c arcfour,blowfish-cbc"'
> 
> (note the quotes)
> 
> appears to be working (I can see the args in ps, and the backup is running).

I normally use the following to enable arcfour for a particular target:

$Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -C -c arcfour -l root $host
$rsyncPath $argList+';


-- 
Tim Fletcher <tim AT night-shade.org DOT uk>


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