Hi all,
I have a two drive RAID1 serving data for a busy website. The
partition is 500GB and contains millions of 10KB files. For reference,
here's /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1]
md0 : active raid1 sdc1[0] sdd1[1]
488383936 blocks [2/2] [UU]
For backups, I set the md0 partition to
Hi all,
I have a two drive RAID1 serving data for a busy website. The
partition is 500GB and contains millions of 10KB files. For reference,
here's /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1]
md0 : active raid1 sdc1[0] sdd1[1]
488383936 blocks [2/2] [UU]
For backups, I set the md0
Jeff Breidenbach wrote:
So - I'm thinking of the following backup scenario. First, remount
/dev/md0 readonly just to be safe. Then mount the two component
paritions (sdc1, sdd1) readonly. Tell the webserver to work from one
component partition, and tell the backup process to work from the
First of all, if the data is mostly static, rsync might work faster.
Any operation that stats the individual files - even to just look at
timestamps - takes about two weeks. Therefore it is hard for me to see
rsync as a viable solution, even though the data is mostly
static. About 400,000 files
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Jeff Breidenbach wrote:
First of all, if the data is mostly static, rsync might work faster.
Any operation that stats the individual files - even to just look at
timestamps - takes about two weeks. Therefore it is hard for me to see
rsync as a viable solution, even
Jeff == Jeff Breidenbach jeff@jab.org writes:
Jeff # mount | grep md0
Jeff /dev/md0 on /data1 type reiserfs (rw,noatime,nodiratime)
Ah, you're using reiserfs on here. It may or may not be having
problems with all those files per-directory that you have. Is there
any way you can split them up
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Jeff Breidenbach wrote:
Dean, the comment about write-mostly is confusing to me. Let's say
I somehow marked one of the component drives write-mostly to quiet it
down. How do I get at it? Linux will not let me mount the component
partition if md0 is also mounted. Do you
Should there be any consideration for the utilization of the gigabit
interface that is passing all of this backup traffic, as well as the
speed of the drive that is doing all of the writing during this
transaction? Is the 18MB/s how fast the data is being copied over the
network, or is it
On 10/24/05, Thomas Garner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Should there be any consideration for the utilization of the gigabit
interface that is passing all of this backup traffic, as well as the
speed of the drive that is doing all of the writing during this
transaction? Is the 18MB/s how fast
