Paul Archer wrote: > > Because it's easier to change what I'm doing than what my DBA does, I > decided that I would put rsync back in place, but locally. So I changed > things so that the backups go to a staging FS, and then are rsync'ed > over to another FS that I take snapshots on. The only problem is that > the snapshots are still in the 500GB range. > > So, I need to figure out why these snapshots are taking so much more > room than they were before. > > This, BTW, is the rsync command I'm using (and essentially the same > command I was using when I was rsync'ing from the NetApp): > > rsync -aPH --inplace --delete /staging/oracle_backup/ > /backups/oracle_backup/
Try adding --no-whole-file to rsync. rsync disables block-by-block comparison if used locally by default. --Arne > > > > This is the old system (rsync'ing from a NetApp and taking snapshots): > zfs list -t snapshot -r bpool/snapback > NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT > ... > bpool/snapb...@20100310-182713 53.7G - 868G - > bpool/snapb...@20100312-000318 59.8G - 860G - > bpool/snapb...@20100312-182552 54.0G - 840G - > bpool/snapb...@20100313-184834 71.7G - 884G - > bpool/snapb...@20100314-123024 17.5G - 832G - > bpool/snapb...@20100315-173609 72.6G - 891G - > bpool/snapb...@20100316-165527 24.3G - 851G - > bpool/snapb...@20100317-171304 56.2G - 884G - > bpool/snapb...@20100318-170250 50.9G - 865G - > bpool/snapb...@20100319-181131 53.9G - 874G - > bpool/snapb...@20100320-183617 80.8G - 902G - > ... > > > > This is from the new system (backing up directly to one volume, > rsync'ing to and snapshotting another one): > > r...@backup02:~# zfs list -t snapshot -r bpool/backups/oracle_backup > NAME USED AVAIL REFER > MOUNTPOINT > bpool/backups/oracle_bac...@20100411-023130 479G - 681G - > bpool/backups/oracle_bac...@20100411-104428 515G - 721G - > bpool/backups/oracle_bac...@20100412-144700 0 - 734G - > > > Thanks for any help, > > Paul > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
