Vanhorn, Mike wrote: > > On 5/17/17, 5:27 PM, "CentOS on behalf of m.roth at 5-cent.us" > <centos-bounces at centos.org on behalf of m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > >>Why? I just rsync'd 159G in less than one workday from one server to >>another. Admittedly, we allegedly have a 1G network, but.... > > Well, I’ve don’t recall ever having to rsync more than 100G (although I am > doing multiple rsyncs of about 86G as we speak), and I’ve never been able > to do it with machines on their own, isolated switch (so my rsync’s are > competing with everything else on the network), and it’s been a while > since I’ve actually tried it multiple ways and measured it, but in my > experience I’ve never see the network outperform the system bus. I wasn't saying the network outperformed the system bus. Most of the time, though, I don't have that as a possibility. Usually, all the drive bays are full and in use. When we get to terabytes, that's at least overnight; but a few hundred gig I can do in a day, if I start early. mark