What is the preferred method of moving directories between filers?
I was wondering what method the toaster community in general
preferred. In the past I have used tar from my UNIX admin host, rsync,
dump/restore, ndmpcopy, and cp. I have about given up on ndmpcopy
because even across GbE, I see better thruput using tar or
dump/restore. A couple of the admins I've spoken to swear by rsync, but
I have only used it sparingly.
I have a clustered pair of F760s, one filer for a production database
and the second for a development database. Originally, both the
production and development work was on the first filer, but space for
production work began to run low. We are now moving development data
off the production filer onto the development filer and we want to
minimize the impact to the production filer while moving the data in a
timely manner to the development system. The filers are on the same
backup GbE LAN, so the network connection between the two is stable and
fast.
Any thoughts, opinions, or war stories greatly appreciated.
Geoff Hardin
geoff.hardin@dalsemi.com
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
I was wondering what method the toaster community in general
preferred. In the past I have used tar from my UNIX admin host, rsync,
dump/restore, ndmpcopy, and cp. I have about given up on ndmpcopy
because even across GbE, I see better thruput using tar or
dump/restore. A couple of the admins I've spoken to swear by rsync, but
I have only used it sparingly.
I have a clustered pair of F760s, one filer for a production database
and the second for a development database. Originally, both the
production and development work was on the first filer, but space for
production work began to run low. We are now moving development data
off the production filer onto the development filer and we want to
minimize the impact to the production filer while moving the data in a
timely manner to the development system. The filers are on the same
backup GbE LAN, so the network connection between the two is stable and
fast.
Any thoughts, opinions, or war stories greatly appreciated.
Geoff Hardin
geoff.hardin@dalsemi.com
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.