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Those who suggest to use "rsync", I have couple of questions for you.

Those who suggest to use "rsync", I have couple of questions for you. I saw the site and document,. * The largest test was 24MB. I am looking for giga bytes servers, Will it support ? Also someone in mailing list raise the issue of eating so much "CPU" by "rsync" ??.

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Those who suggest to use "rsync", I have couple of questions for you.

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  1. Those who suggest to use "rsync", I have couple of questions for you.

  2. I saw the site and document,

  3. * The largest test was 24MB. I am looking for giga bytes servers, Will it support ? Also someone in mailing list raise the issue of eating so much "CPU" by "rsync" ??

  4. * It does not address replicating all the file attributes (as far as I can tell).

  5. * It does not address the initial synchronization problem ?

  6. Thanks

  7. --- Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com>

  8. > wrote:

  9. >At 12:50 PM 8/12/00 +0930, Dan Shearer wrote:

  10. >>On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Daryl Tester wrote:

  11. >>

  12. >>> Stephen Donaldson wrote:

  13. >>>

  14. >>> > I would suggest that, given the limited

  15. >>> > input so far, you identify the most commonly used files and cron them

  16. >>> > regularly..

  17. >>>

  18. >>> I think you need to re-read the question. It was a single file

  19. >>> of 2 gig in size.

  20. >>>

  21. >>> I have done something in a commercial environment for a relatively

  22. >>> large file, which involves:

  23. >>>

  24. >>> 1) Running the transaction file on a mirrored drive.

  25. >>> 2) Breaking the mirror (to get a "reasonably consistent snapshot).

  26. >>> 3) Backing up the non-used ex mirror.

  27. >>> 4) Merging the drive back with its original mirror.

  28. >>>

  29. >>> Steps 2-4 are performed every 15 minutes. Works OK, but probably not

  30. >>> for 2 gigs of data.

  31. >>

  32. >>A more efficient way to do steps 2-4 is to use rsync,

  33. >>http://rsync.samba.org.

  34. >

  35. >Well, that depends. At a site I am involved with, we currently rsync about

  36. >5GB of data between two machines every 20 minutes. It chews up so much CPU

  37. >that users notice it. The problem is it has to check every file in that 5GB

  38. >or so worth of data.

  39. >

  40. >In addition, loosing up to 20 minutes worth of data, and the

  41. >inconsistencies between the two sets is not a good thing.

  42. >

  43. >>There are ways of doing this sort of thing at the filesystem level and

  44. >>also at the disc block level. Neither are trivial to set up. rsync is a

  45. >>good interim, simple solution.

  46. >

  47. >So, we are looking at using drbd, which is one of the solutions I imagine

  48. >Dan is talking about.

  49. >

  50. >>Dan

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