Copying a large file system (again)

[Kuba Ober]

On Monday 03 December 2007, RB wrote:
> > Thanks, it looks like I'll need to look for some more memory for the
> > source machine. Maybe I'll try plugging the SATA RAID into the
> > destination machine directly (a PE1800 with more RAM) and copy locally,
> > skipping the network, then maybe rsync will be an option since most of
> > the files are already in place, just the main pool is still missing.
>
> Does your destination machine have sufficient memory?  I'm not
> hard-stuck on rsync, but one of the niceties of running rsync over SSH
> is that you can do it from either end.

If you have two PowerEdges nearby and in your control, there's no reason not 
to use a dedicated gigabit link between the two, without any encryption. SSH 
is dog-slow and takes up CPU unnecessarily when all you do is move data 
between adjacent machines (if that's what you do).

> Failing that, GNU TAR may well work better on less RAM.  S-TAR is
> nice, but it *might* have a memory leak or something that causes it to
> utilize so much memory.  

Again, Joerg might have an answer to that. It may be simply that you didn't 
give an option of some sort or another :)

Cheers, Kuba