For backup I use a local copy using tar, but I use rsync too. I don't compare but if you send any stadistics about rsync we can said more information.
use rsync *--stats I don't note difernt speed, but did you make a full rsync, and show --progress for see that file it is going at what speed? regards * On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Dirk Bonenkamp - ProActive < d...@proactive.nl> wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm currently testing a OCFS2 set-up, and I'm having issues with > creating backups. > > I have a 2 node cluster, running OCFS2 on a dual primary DRBD device. > > The file system is 3.7Tb of which 211 Gb is used: about 1.5 million > files in 95 directories. > > Everything works fine, except for the backups, which are taking way more > time than on 'regular' file systems. > > I'm using rsync for my backups. When I rsync the file system above, this > takes more than an hour, without any modifications to the file system. > > Network / disk speed is good. I can rsync a 10 Gb file from the OCFS2 > filesystem to the same backup server with just under 100 Mb/s. > > I know there is some penalty to be expected from a clustered file > system, but this is al lot. Rsyncing an ext3 file system double the size > (in Mb's and files) of this file system takes about 600 seconds... > > Has anybody some advice on a backup strategy for me? Or some tuning tips? > > Thanks in advance, > > Dirk > > -- > <http://www.proactive.nl> > T 023 - 5422299 > F 023 - 5422728 > > www.proactive.nl <http://www.proactive.nl> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ocfs2-users mailing list > Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users >
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