On Jan 31, 2008 6:12 PM, Anand Shankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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?
Yeah, you should be using Clonezilla :-) http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/ http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/testimonial/ http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1037666355089325851 -- Kristian Erik Hermansen "Know something about everything and everything about something." _______________________________________________ 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/
