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 <
dirk at 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
>
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