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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto"> Also, you should have noatime enabled on this filesystem, check your mount options. Or else the rsync will end up causing access time to be updated.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Regards,</SPAN></div>
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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr contentEditable=false readonly="true"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Eduardo Diaz - Gmail <ediazrod@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Dirk Bonenkamp - ProActive <dirk@proactive.nl> <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Tuesday, April 3, 2012 11:26 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Ocfs2-users] Backup issues<BR></FONT></DIV><BR>
<DIV id=yiv2096855032>For backup I use a local copy using tar, but I use rsync too.<BR><BR>I don't compare but if you send any stadistics about rsync we can said more information.<BR><BR>use rsync <B><STRONG>--stats<BR><BR>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?<BR><BR>regards<BR></STRONG></B><BR><BR>
<DIV class=yiv2096855032gmail_quote>On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Dirk Bonenkamp - ProActive <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:dirk@proactive.nl" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:dirk@proactive.nl">dirk@proactive.nl</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class=yiv2096855032gmail_quote>Hi All,<BR><BR>I'm currently testing a OCFS2 set-up, and I'm having issues with<BR>creating backups.<BR><BR>I have a 2 node cluster, running OCFS2 on a dual primary DRBD device.<BR><BR>The file system is 3.7Tb of which 211 Gb is used: about 1.5 million<BR>files in 95 directories.<BR><BR>Everything works fine, except for the backups, which are taking way more<BR>time than on 'regular' file systems.<BR><BR>I'm using rsync for my backups. When I rsync the file system above, this<BR>takes more than an hour, without any modifications to the file system.<BR><BR>Network / disk speed is good. I can rsync a 10 Gb file from the OCFS2<BR>filesystem to the same backup server with just under 100 Mb/s.<BR><BR>I know there is some penalty to be expected from a clustered file<BR>system, but this is al lot. Rsyncing an ext3 file system double the
size<BR>(in Mb's and files) of this file system takes about 600 seconds...<BR><BR>Has anybody some advice on a backup strategy for me? Or some tuning tips?<BR><BR>Thanks in advance,<BR><BR>Dirk<BR><BR>--<BR><http://www.proactive.nl><BR>T 023 - 5422299<BR>F 023 - 5422728<BR><BR><A href="http://www.proactive.nl/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>www.proactive.nl</A> <<A href="http://www.proactive.nl/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.proactive.nl</A>><BR><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Ocfs2-users mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com">Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com</A><BR>http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Ocfs2-users mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com"
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