RE: Rsync takes long time to finish

2012-04-12 Thread vijay patel
I've not seen mentioned is, upgrading your kernel may help. > > Somewhere shortly before kernel 3.0, pathname lookups got > > noticeably faster. > > > > You could also try an alternative filesystem like xfs. It's > > supposed to be pretty good at large directori

RE: Rsync takes long time to finish

2012-04-12 Thread vijay patel
overhead but that shouldn't be a big deal on > only 100Mbits. It would make no difference in the indexing. > > Have you checked your version yet? Run rsync --version on both > systems. If it isn't 3.0.something upgrade. That will make a big > difference. > > On 04/

RE: Rsync takes long time to finish

2012-04-12 Thread vijay patel
ng rsync v3. It indexes in > parallel to the copying. > > On 04/12/12 16:59, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > > On 04/12/2012 03:28:18 PM, vijay patel wrote: > >> > >> Thanks friends. We are using Redhat Linux 5.8 on Production and > >> Disaster Recovery side. By

RE: Rsync takes long time to finish

2012-04-12 Thread vijay patel
sh. If > encryption isn't important you could also setup rsyncd. > > If it is mostly updating existing files check the itemize output to > see if the files really need updating. For instance if something is > screwing with your timestamps that will create a bunch of extra work > f

Rsync takes long time to finish

2012-04-12 Thread vijay patel
Hi Friends, I am using rsync to copy data from Production File Server to Disaster Recovery file server. I have 100Mbps link setup between these two servers. Folder structure is very deep. It is having path like /reports/folder1/date/folder2/file.tx, where we have 1600 directories like 'folde