Re: recommendations for copying large filesystems

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On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 5:12 PM, nightduke <nightduke2005@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Can add fiber network card to each server? fiber switch? if not try to
plugin to each server giga ethernet card.... put a crossover cable and
start rsync... i did that with 1tb of photos and takes a lot of
time....keep power supply working and cross the fingers....

I hope this can help

2008/6/21 John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Mag Gam wrote:
>>
>> Network is a 10/100
>> 1 million large files
>> No SAN, JBOD
>
> assuming 100baseT wire speed of about 10Mbyte/sec, moving 100TB will take a
> minimum of 100TB/10MB/s = 10,000,000 seconds or 2900 hours, or about 4
> months.   even on a gigE network, this would still take about 2 weeks or
> more.

Then if you get the network sorted out, the fastest & most reliable way I know to copy lots of files is

star --copy

You can get star with

yum install star

--Matt

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