[Deskaheh-sysadmin] Can SFTP Speed on Deskaheh be increased?

[john milton]

Hi:

I am in the process of trying to backup IMC Hamilton's site from Deskaheh.

Finnc made me a nice .tar file, but it is a bit on the large side (About 
1.3 gigabytes)

I am using SFTP (client is Data Freeway by Lukasoft) over a 5 Meg 
bit/sec cable modem

I am getting throughput rates of between 3.5 and 7 KBytes per second on 
the transfer i.e. about 0.5 to 1.5 of a dial up connection rate.

At the current rate my SFTP client tells me I'll need over 3 more days 
to transfer the file.

It is very rare these days for Deskaheh to go three days at a stretch 
without crashing, so I am not optomistic about being able to complete 
the backup.

Does anyone have any suggestions?
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