Re: rsync backup performance question

2003-06-22 Thread Ron Arts
jw schultz wrote: On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 11:42:46AM +0200, Ron Arts wrote: Dear all, I am implementing a backup system, where thousands of postgreSQL databases (max 1 Gb in size) on as much clients need to be backed up nightly across ISDN lines. Because of the limited bandwidth, rsync

Re: rsync backup performance question

2003-06-22 Thread Ron Arts
jw schultz wrote: You have a couple of points wrong. The receiver generates the block checksums. If you are pushing that would be the server but if you are pulling it is the client. In 2.5.6 and earlier the transmitted block checksums are 6 bytes per block with a default block size of 700 bytes

Re: rsync backup performance question

2003-06-22 Thread Ron Arts
jw schultz wrote: [snip.. and thanks for all your comments] Rsync doesn't perform well on non-local filesystems. Really? Won't gigabit ethernet help for NFS, or maybe Samba? I only have to rsync a relatively low number of files, so no large directory scans. Ron -- Netland Internet Services

backing up thousands of systems, each containing a couple of GB,over analog lines

2003-06-01 Thread Ron Arts
of files at the same time. - How well does this scale up? Does anyone have any experince with such setups? Regards, Ron Arts smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http