> > at the moment i'm using rsync twice a day to sync about 2TB amount of > > data between two hardware raids (both raid5 with 2 hot spare) ... > > disadvantage: because analyzing data to sync by rsync takes time it's > > senseless to sync every our so you have no realtime backup (only 12h > before) > > [Mitch says:] Not sure about your setup, but with mine, I found that more frequent rsyncs resulted in much faster performance... depends on the number of files that are modified - with a little planning maybe you could segment your rsyncs and hit the stuff that is more frequently changed every hour...
As an example, in one test a daily rsync took over 20 minutes, while the rsync hourly took only 2 minutes... sure it adds up to more time in total to rsync more often, but if the systems can handle the load... m/ -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
