A few months back I successfully used G4L [Ghost For Linux] to backup and restore disk images over the network. I used the technique to build 45 new PCs, with upto about 5 machines being restored at the same time. I used to get fantastic speeds 20MB/s or even more. Subsequently we made many more images and it became a routine practice.
http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/msg17738.html However, recently we started getting low data transfer rates less than 5MB/s and many a times recovery fails, on some strange reason, suspecting network issues. Given that disk images and such data transfers are of the order of 6-10 GB per image, I am concerned on the FTP Server performance. I am using standard vsftpd on a Fedora 7 box with 2GB RAM. Are there any tweaks on my server side which will facilitate high throughputs? What other diagonastics should I run to figure out the root cause of problem? Any info on the kind of specific flags I should lookout in Wireshark? TIA anand _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
