[CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems
Erek Dyskant
erek at blumenthals.com
Sun Jun 22 01:27:39 UTC 2008
On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 09:33 -0400, Mag Gam wrote:
> 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?
At gigabit speeds, you're looking at over a week of transfer time: 1
gigabit = 125MB/sec = 800,000 seconds = 9.25 days, not counting protocol
overhead. You could speed this up with link bonding, which from
previous threads sounds like something you're working on already.
If it's a oneoff transfer and you can afford downtime while you're
fiddling with hardware, you may consider directly attaching both sets of
storage to the same machine and doing a local copy.
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