2014-10-19 20:03 GMT+03:00 Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen at iki.fi>: > > > 2014-10-19 18:55 GMT+03:00 Tim Dunphy <bluethundr at gmail.com>: > >> Guys, >> >> I've setup an rsync between two directories that I've mounted locally on >> a >> jump box. Long story short, the two directories are both NFS shares from >> two different hosts. Our security dept won't allow us to SSH between the >> two data centers, directly. But the jump host can contact both. So what >> I've done is mount the NFS shares from one host in each data center on the >> jump box using sshfs. >> >> The directory I'm trying to rsync from has 111GB of data in it. I don't >> think I've ever setup an rsync for quite so much data before. >> >> But I started the rsync at approx. 7pm last night. And as of now the >> rsync >> is still building it's file list. >> >> [root at sshproxygw ~]# rsync -avzp /mnt/db_space/timd/www1/ >> /mnt/db_space/timd/www2/svn2/ >> building file list ... >> >> So my question to you is, is this a normal amount of time to wait for the >> file list to be built? Considering the amount of data involved. I have it >> running in a screen session I can attach to to find out what's going on. >> > > Regerating rsync file list can take a very long time :/ > > Make sure that you are using fast link on both ends and at least version 3 > of rsync. > ... and remember to use tcp for nfs transfer ;) -- Eero