[Bug 8512] rsync is slower than cp -- Reduce overhead to cp for transfer of large files

2014-09-09 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8512 --- Comment #5 from Peter van Hooft ho...@natlab.research.philips.com 2014-09-09 07:49:13 UTC --- We use rsync to copy data from one file server to another using NFS3 mounts over a 10Gb link. We found that upping the buffer sizes (as a quick test)

Re: [Bug 8512] rsync is slower than cp -- Reduce overhead to cp for transfer of large files

2014-09-09 Thread Dan Stromberg
Why not enable Jumbo Frames? http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~strombrg/jumbo.html For NFS, you can use http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~strombrg/nfs-test.html to get some fast settings. The script could be modified to do CIFS I suppose. HTH -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid

Re: Backup scripts

2014-09-09 Thread Henri Shustak
Hello, The --link-dest approach is the way LBackup works and this is also what allows the lcd command (part of LBackup) to move you back and forth in time while you remain in the same directory relative directory. This makes finding a particular data quite easy during a partial restore. In

Re: Backup scripts

2014-09-09 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Have you considered more advanced methods such as subvolume snapshots provided by ZFS and BTRFS? At work we were forced to abandon rsync - --link-dest because of the amount of time it takes to delete old backups when the data is primarily many

--temp-dir option question/issue

2014-09-09 Thread Nirat Shah
Hello, I am using rsync with --temp-dir=/tmp option for rsync module. I noticed that if the tmp directory is deleted rsync attempt will fail like - rsync: mkstemp module_base/tmp/.xyz_file.Z0m8I6 (in module) failed: No such file or directory (2) rsync error: some files/attrs were not