From: Timothy J M. <tm...@ob...> - 2012-09-18 15:05:06
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Tim Fletcher <ti...@ni...> wrote on 09/17/2012 08:50:39 AM: > You are being hit by disk io speeds, check you dont have atime > turned on on the fs. I agree that noatime is a net win for *very* little pain. I found a system where I had not mounted the datastore noatime and swiched it. In my case, while it made a difference, it wasn't monumental: With atime: 769 minutes for 675677MB. With noatime: 609 minutes for 648224MB. So, a 21% improvement. I'll take it, but it's not going to get my 3.5 day backups under 12 hours! :) > Also it's worth considering tar instead of > rsync for this sort of work load. I still have this on the (very) back burner. It's a Windows system, so I'm looking at SMB, and I *hate* backups over SMB. They are nothing but a problem. Tim Massey Out of the Box Solutions, Inc. Creative IT Solutions Made Simple! http://www.OutOfTheBoxSolutions.com tm...@ob... 22108 Harper Ave. St. Clair Shores, MI 48080 Office: (800)750-4OBS (4627) Cell: (586)945-8796 |