On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 7:57 AM, tomwaters <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi guys, this sounds like a simple question, but I am hoping there is a > "right" way to do this. > > I have two opensolaris servers that are connected over a gigabit network > (though two switches) using Intel NIC's. > > One is the main nas/server (8TB total storage), the other a backup nas. > > I want to transfer files between them. The files will vary in size from 10k > through to 4GB, most ~500k and may involve up to 2TB transfers overall. > Transfers will initially be manual (ie. drag and drop), and then later > scripted. > > What is the best (aka fastest transfer rate) method to connect these two > machines. > > NFS? > > You can work with ZFS snapshots and `zfs send | receive` to transfer them to your backup server. Either using ssh or something like mbuffer as the transport channel. It can be easily scripted. If you expect your primary network interface to be fully utilized, consider adding secondary NICs for a backend backup network so replication does not interfere with your production network. If you want to go the rsync way, NFS is probably your best option. -- Giovanni
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