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rsyncing the db server (gigabit)

Number of files: 29021
Number of files transferred: 338
Total file size: 8.16G bytes
Total transferred file size: 2.36G bytes
Literal data: 2.36G bytes
Matched data: 0 bytes
File list size: 639379
File list generation time: 0.176 seconds
File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds
Total bytes sent: 7.82K
Total bytes received: 414.13M

sent 7.82K bytes  received 414.13M bytes  2.28M bytes/sec
total size is 8.16G  speedup is 19.70


rsyncing the app (& everything else) server (gigabit)

Number of files: 792298
Number of files transferred: 4348
Total file size: 426.83G bytes
Total transferred file size: 18.43G bytes
Literal data: 18.46G bytes
Matched data: 0 bytes
File list size: 16875888
File list generation time: 393.532 seconds
File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds
Total bytes sent: 97.80K
Total bytes received: 8.28G

sent 97.80K bytes  received 8.28G bytes  5.06M bytes/sec
total size is 426.83G  speedup is 51.55


rsyncing the distant cafeteria server (100mbps)

Number of files: 685398
Number of files transferred: 1402
Total file size: 25.32G bytes
Total transferred file size: 1.34G bytes
Literal data: 1.34G bytes
Matched data: 0 bytes
File list size: 20902098
Total bytes sent: 22.51K
Total bytes received: 236.33M

sent 22.51K bytes  received 236.33M bytes  498.11K bytes/sec
total size is 25.32G  speedup is 107.11




On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Winelfred G. Pasamba
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I rsync all my servers to some local disk.  It takes a long time the
> first time of course, as all the files have to be transferred.  But
> the next time is faster.  The bottleneck used to the the 100mbps lan
> (10mB/s), but when i switched to 1gbs (100mB/s) the bottleneck became
> the disks.  Encryption and compression are not an issue these days, as
> core2quads are cheap and fast.
>
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Ludwig Isaac Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi:
>>
>>    Does anyone here have experience in rsync'ing large amount of data 
>> (nearly 40+ GB)? I would
>> like to know the limitation of rsync before doing it.
>>
>>    The current setup is this:
>>    The data (38+ GB) is in a HP-UX server. The goal is to rsync it to a NFS 
>> drive (which is a SAN
>> [Storage Area Network]) running under Linux.
>>
>>    The SAN can accommodate 2TB so storage area of the target machine is not 
>> a problem.  The data
>> consist mostly of schematics in PDF format; so the files are not really 
>> large, but there is a very
>> large number files to be rsync'ed.
>>
>>    Any other things to consider? What is a better way of doing it:
>>    a) rsync it over NFS?
>>    b) rsync it via ssh to the other machine?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ludwig Lim
>>
>>
>>
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>
> Winelfred G. Pasamba
> Adventist University of the Philippines Online Information Systems
>



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