[CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems
Rainer Duffner
rainer at ultra-secure.de
Sat Jun 21 17:19:05 UTC 2008
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 /targetfs
>
> /targetfs is a NFS mounted filesystem.
>
>
What network link is there between these hosts?
Are these 1 or 2 million small files or bigger ones?
Does the data change a lot?
Is it a SAN or JBOD?
cheers,
Rainer
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Rainer Duffner
CISSP, LPI, MCSE
rainer at ultra-secure.de
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