Ugo Bellavance wrote: >>> Are you backing up nfs to nfs? From where to where are you doing >>> backups? >> The source data is on a ext3 partition, LVM volume, backed by a >> 15krpm raid 10 volume. Both rsyncs where conducted from the source >> host (the db server) to the backup server (which hosts nfs). In the >> nfs backup, I was rsyncing from the db filesystem to an NFS mount, >> and the ssh backup, I was rsyncing from the db filesystem to >> sshuser at backupserver:/backups. > Ok, so the DB is residing locally on the local server you are copying > onto the nfs mount only during backup? > correct