On Sat, 2009-08-08 at 08:14, Mattias Pantzare wrote: > Your scalability problem may be in your backup solution. We've eliminated the backup system as being involved with the performance issues.
The servers are Solaris 10 with the OS on UFS filesystems. (In zfs terms, the pool is old/mature). Solaris has been patched to a fairly current level. Copying data from the zfs filesystem to the local ufs filesystem enjoys the same throughput as the backup system. The test was simple. Create a test filesystem on the zfs pool. Restore production email data to it. Reboot the server. Backup the data (29 minutes for a 15.8 gig of data). Reboot the server. Copy data from zfs to ufs using a 'cp -pr ...' command, which also took 29 minutes. And if anyone is interested it only took 15 minutes to restore (write) the 15.8GB of data over the network. -- Ed _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
