We're planning to move to Veritas Volume Replicator. It has the advantage of working at the filesystem level, so whenever a write is done on the primary site, the same write is automatically done on the mirror site. For what I am doing here, it should (hopefully!) work a lot better than rsync because it runs continuously, and it doesn't have the startup overhead of building a file list, which is the biggest problem with rsync when you are dealing with large groups of files.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Breedlove, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 11:46 AM > To: Granzow, Doug (NCI); '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: Largest file system being synced > > > What are you moving to? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Granzow, Doug (NCI) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 8:31 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: Largest file system being synced > > > > I am currently syncing 1.3 terabytes of files using rsync. > This is spread > across about 12 filesystems all on the same server. > Unfortunately we are > planning to move away from rsync because it is taking too > long to run and it > takes up too much memory (some of the rsync processes take up > 1.5 GB of RAM > -- if we get two of those running at once, the server dies). > We have been > very happy with rsync but it has recently reached a critical > mass where it > can no longer handle the number of files we are trying to > sync in a timely > manner. But if you are looking for the largest rsync site, > we might be a > contender. :) > > FYI, we also use (and plan to continue to use) rsync for > several smaller > mirroring operations. > > > > I'm interested in large file system replication capability of > > rsync. Could > > some of you people who use it share how large their mirroring > > is? What would > > you say is the largest sized site being mirrored using rsync? > > > > Thanks! > > > > JP -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
