Re: [CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-24 Thread Jerry Franz
Mag Gam wrote: I need to copy over 100TB of data from one server to another via network. What is the best option to do this? I am planning to use rsync but is there a better tool or better way of doing this? For example, I plan on doing rsync -azv /largefs /targetfs /targetfs is a NFS

Re: [CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-23 Thread Tom Brown
I have done 700k and 800k files transfers (including hardlinks), but indeed it could take a while to compute the transferlist. Newer rsync versions bring down the amount of memory needed drastically. That is one of the reasons I offer a recent rsync in RPMforge. There is almost never a

Re: [CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-22 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 3:36 AM, Rainer Duffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I know the details - I don' think this is going to work. Not with 100 TB of data. It kind-of-works with 1 TB. Can anybody comment on the feasibility of rsync on 1 million files? rsync always broke on my

Re: [CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-22 Thread nightduke
stops sync? 2008/6/22 Raja Subramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 3:36 AM, Rainer Duffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I know the details - I don' think this is going to work. Not with 100 TB of data. It kind-of-works with 1 TB. Can anybody comment on the feasibility of

Re: [CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-22 Thread Dag Wieers
On Sun, 22 Jun 2008, Raja Subramanian wrote: On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 3:36 AM, Rainer Duffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I know the details - I don' think this is going to work. Not with 100 TB of data. It kind-of-works with 1 TB. Can anybody comment on the feasibility of rsync on 1

Re: [CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-22 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Dag Wieers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have done 700k and 800k files transfers (including hardlinks), but indeed it could take a while to compute the transferlist. Newer rsync versions bring down the amount of memory needed drastically. That is one of the

Re: [CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-22 Thread Erek Dyskant
If you do end up using rsync for something like this via ssh, you might want to look at some of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center's patches. The high-performance patches can allow you to see dramatic increases in throughput. Or, if it's over a secure network, drop ssh entirely and use

Re: [CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-22 Thread Mogens Kjaer
Rainer Duffner wrote: ... Can anybody comment on the feasibility of rsync on 1 million files? I rsync 2.6M files daily. No problem. It takes 15 minutes, if there's only a few changes. For fast transfer of files between two machines I usually use ttcp: From machine: tar cf - .|ttcp -l5120

[CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-21 Thread Mag Gam
I need to copy over 100TB of data from one server to another via network. What is the best option to do this? I am planning to use rsync but is there a better tool or better way of doing this? For example, I plan on doing rsync -azv /largefs /targetfs /targetfs is a NFS mounted filesystem. Any

Re: [CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-21 Thread John R Pierce
Mag Gam wrote: I need to copy over 100TB of data from one server to another via network. What is the best option to do this? I am planning to use rsync but is there a better tool or better way of doing this? For example, I plan on doing rsync -azv /largefs /targetfs /targetfs is a NFS

Re: [CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-21 Thread Les Mikesell
Mag Gam wrote: I need to copy over 100TB of data from one server to another via network. What is the best option to do this? I am planning to use rsync but is there a better tool or better way of doing this? For example, I plan on doing rsync -azv /largefs /targetfs /targetfs is a NFS mounted

Re: [CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-21 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 21.06.2008 um 15:33 schrieb Mag Gam: I need to copy over 100TB of data from one server to another via network. What is the best option to do this? I am planning to use rsync but is there a better tool or better way of doing this? For example, I plan on doing rsync -azv /largefs

Re: [CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-21 Thread Mag Gam
Network is a 10/100 1 million large files No SAN, JBOD On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Rainer Duffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 21.06.2008 um 15:33 schrieb Mag Gam: I need to copy over 100TB of data from one server to another via network. What is the best option to do this? I am

Re: [CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-21 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 21.06.2008 um 21:51 schrieb Mag Gam: Network is a 10/100 You're kidding? 1 million large files No SAN, JBOD Move the data by moving the storage itself. It will take months to transfer 100 TB via FastEthernet. cheers, Rainer -- Rainer Duffner CISSP, LPI, MCSE [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-21 Thread John R Pierce
Mag Gam wrote: Network is a 10/100 1 million large files No SAN, JBOD assuming 100baseT wire speed of about 10Mbyte/sec, moving 100TB will take a minimum of 100TB/10MB/s = 10,000,000 seconds or 2900 hours, or about 4 months. even on a gigE network, this would still take about 2 weeks or

Re: [CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-21 Thread nightduke
Can add fiber network card to each server? fiber switch? if not try to plugin to each server giga ethernet card put a crossover cable and start rsync... i did that with 1tb of photos and takes a lot of timekeep power supply working and cross the fingers I hope this can help 2008/6/21

Re: [CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-21 Thread Matt Morgan
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 5:12 PM, nightduke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can add fiber network card to each server? fiber switch? if not try to plugin to each server giga ethernet card put a crossover cable and start rsync... i did that with 1tb of photos and takes a lot of timekeep power

Re: [CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-21 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 21.06.2008 um 23:44 schrieb Matt Morgan: O Then if you get the network sorted out, the fastest most reliable way I know to copy lots of files is star --copy You can get star with yum install star Now that I know the details - I don' think this is going to work. Not with 100 TB

Re: [CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-21 Thread Erek Dyskant
On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 09:33 -0400, Mag Gam wrote: I need to copy over 100TB of data from one server to another via network. What is the best option to do this? I am planning to use rsync but is there a better tool or better way of doing this? At gigabit speeds, you're looking at over a week