[SOLVED] Rsync between 2 unraid @ 10MB/s?


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Hey all,

 

I'm attempting to push a lot of data between two unraid boxes and I can't seem to get these things to transfer faster than 10MB/s! I've got them both on the same gig switch and I've checked that ethtool eth0 on both boxes shows 1000/full.

 

I've disabled the parity drive in the machine that is receiving the data, doing this over a smbmount. I'm not sure what is wrong even after fully restarting the entire network and being sure that the gig speed LED on the switch is pegged...

 

Thoughts?

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unraid 1:

 


root@unraid:~# ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
        Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
        Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
        Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
        Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
        Advertised pause frame use: No
        Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
        Link partner advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                             100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                             1000baseT/Full
        Link partner advertised pause frame use: No
        Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
        Speed: 1000Mb/s
        Duplex: Full
        Port: MII
        PHYAD: 0
        Transceiver: internal
        Auto-negotiation: on
        Supports Wake-on: pumbg
        Wake-on: g
        Current message level: 0x00000033 (51)
        Link detected: yes

root@unraid:~# ethtool -S eth0
NIC statistics:
     tx_packets: 1448408
     rx_packets: 2103223
     tx_errors: 0
     rx_errors: 0
     rx_missed: 0
     align_errors: 0
     tx_single_collisions: 0
     tx_multi_collisions: 0
     unicast: 2097709
     broadcast: 5514
     multicast: 0
     tx_aborted: 0
     tx_underrun: 0

 

 

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unraid 2:

 


root@Tower:~# ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
        Supported ports: [ TP ]
        Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Full
        Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
        Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Full
        Advertised pause frame use: No
        Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
        Speed: 1000Mb/s
        Duplex: Full
        Port: Twisted Pair
        PHYAD: 0
        Transceiver: internal
        Auto-negotiation: on
        MDI-X: Unknown
        Supports Wake-on: umbg
        Wake-on: g
        Current message level: 0x00000007 (7)
        Link detected: yes


root@Tower:~# ethtool -S eth0
NIC statistics:
     rx_packets: 23693
     tx_packets: 8454
     rx_bytes: 2555871
     tx_bytes: 2043390
     rx_broadcast: 15934
     tx_broadcast: 599
     rx_multicast: 0
     tx_multicast: 0
     rx_errors: 0
     tx_errors: 0
     tx_dropped: 0
     multicast: 0
     collisions: 0
     rx_length_errors: 0
     rx_over_errors: 0
     rx_crc_errors: 0
     rx_frame_errors: 0
     rx_no_buffer_count: 0
     rx_missed_errors: 0
     tx_aborted_errors: 0
     tx_carrier_errors: 0
     tx_fifo_errors: 0
     tx_heartbeat_errors: 0
     tx_window_errors: 0
     tx_abort_late_coll: 0
     tx_deferred_ok: 4
     tx_single_coll_ok: 0
     tx_multi_coll_ok: 0
     tx_timeout_count: 0
     tx_restart_queue: 0
     rx_long_length_errors: 0
     rx_short_length_errors: 0
     rx_align_errors: 0
     tx_tcp_seg_good: 133
     tx_tcp_seg_failed: 0
     rx_flow_control_xon: 8
     rx_flow_control_xoff: 8
     tx_flow_control_xon: 0
     tx_flow_control_xoff: 0
     rx_long_byte_count: 2555871
     rx_csum_offload_good: 8751
     rx_csum_offload_errors: 0
     alloc_rx_buff_failed: 0
     tx_smbus: 0
     rx_smbus: 0
     dropped_smbus: 0

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I've found in the past that to gain the highest possible speed I needed to set up an rsync server.

This would by pass a filesystem protocol layer or an SSH layer.

 

In one particular instance I had to use the option to set the SO_SNDBUF=,SO_RCVBUF= to matching high values on the client and server.

 

If you have parity enabled, 12-17MB/s over the network is what I have seen.

 

On my local machine from one drive to another, I burst at around 35MB/s but then drop to around 23MB/s depending on activity. But this is drive to drive.

 

My best performance over a network has always been client to remote direct rsync server.

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I prefer rsync on native filesystems, but even so adding an smb layer shouldn't cause this drastic an effect.

 

Can we see your smb mount and rsync commands? Syslog maybe?

 

 

I do the following:

 

mkdir /copy_disk1

smbmount //192.168.0.x/the/dir/here /copy_disk1

rsync -av --stats --progress /copy_disk/ /mnt/diskx

 

I'm really surprised by how slow the speed is between the two machines when Parity is disabled. I really enjoy rsync, but I'm wondering if there is something else or another way that I can copy between unraid servers at top speed?

 

It's weird that going from WIN7>unraid I get excellent speeds using Teracopy... I usually average around 30mbs.

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I'm wondering if there is something else or another way that I can copy between unraid servers at top speed?

 

I just mentioned that setting up an rsync server bypasses other network protocol layers

 

Put this in your inetd.conf

rsync  stream  tcp    nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  /usr/bin/rsync --daemon

Then do a kill -1 of the pid of inetd.

 

root@atlas ~ #ps -ef | grep inetd

root      1754    1  0 May21 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/inetd

root    10250 10240  0 09:07 pts/0    00:00:00 grep inetd

 

set up an /etc/rsyncd.conf file

Here's a partial of mine.

 

root@atlas ~ #cat /etc/rsyncd.conf

uid            = root

gid            = root

use chroot      = no

max connections = 4

pid file        = /var/run/rsyncd.pid

timeout        = 600

 

[mnt]

    path = /mnt

    comment = /mnt files

    read only = FALSE

 

 

Then do

rsync (options) (sources) rsync://servername/mnt/disk1/destinationdirectory

 

 

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Weebo:

 

So I tried to get this setup and seem to be running into an error:

 


root@Tower:~# rsync -av --stats --progress /mnt/disk1/ rsync://192.168.0.189/mnt/disk11/
rsync: failed to connect to 192.168.0.189: Connection refused (111)
rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(122) [sender=3.0.7]

 

root@Tower:~# ps -ef | grep inetd

root      1149    1  0 05:31 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/inetd

root      3083    1  0 05:58 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/inetd

root      4603  2202  0 06:13 pts/0    00:00:00 grep inetd

 

I set this code up on 'tower' which is the server that I want to copy the data from and onto 'unraid'

 

Thoughts?

 

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Did you perform the following on 192.168.0.189?

 

I'm wondering if there is something else or another way that I can copy between unraid servers at top speed?

 

I just mentioned that setting up an rsync server bypasses other network protocol layers

 

Put this in your inetd.conf

rsync   stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  /usr/bin/rsync --daemon

Then do a kill -1 of the pid of inetd.

 

root@atlas ~ #ps -ef | grep inetd

root      1754     1  0 May21 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/inetd

root     10250 10240  0 09:07 pts/0    00:00:00 grep inetd

 

set up an /etc/rsyncd.conf file

Here's a partial of mine.

 

root@atlas ~ #cat /etc/rsyncd.conf

uid             = root

gid             = root

use chroot      = no

max connections = 4

pid file        = /var/run/rsyncd.pid

timeout         = 600

 

[mnt]

    path = /mnt

    comment = /mnt files

    read only = FALSE

 

Then on Tower you enter:

root@Tower:~# rsync -av --stats --progress /mnt/disk1/ rsync://192.168.0.189/mnt/disk11/

 

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Did you perform the following on 192.168.0.189?

 

I'm wondering if there is something else or another way that I can copy between unraid servers at top speed?

 

I just mentioned that setting up an rsync server bypasses other network protocol layers

 

Put this in your inetd.conf

rsync   stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  /usr/bin/rsync --daemon

Then do a kill -1 of the pid of inetd.

 

root@atlas ~ #ps -ef | grep inetd

root      1754     1  0 May21 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/inetd

root     10250 10240  0 09:07 pts/0    00:00:00 grep inetd

 

set up an /etc/rsyncd.conf file

Here's a partial of mine.

 

root@atlas ~ #cat /etc/rsyncd.conf

uid             = root

gid             = root

use chroot      = no

max connections = 4

pid file        = /var/run/rsyncd.pid

timeout         = 600

 

[mnt]

    path = /mnt

    comment = /mnt files

    read only = FALSE

 

Then on Tower you enter:

root@Tower:~# rsync -av --stats --progress /mnt/disk1/ rsync://192.168.0.189/mnt/disk11/

 

 

Ahhhh.. I set it up on Tower and not unRAID (.189) I guess that would be my problem!

 

 

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I figure I will help out the other non-linux gurus and create a step by step on how to make this work as I've often struggled with not knowing exactly how to do some of this.

 

Warning: I'm still a  linux newb. Guru's, please correct me where I'm wrong :)

Warning2: If anything breaks all blame goes to WeeboTech and if it works just right all prop goes to WeeboTech  ;D

 

1. Install vim using unMenu's Pkg Manager (it's near the bottom)

2. Telent into your unRAID machine that you want to receive the data (in my case that is 'unRAID' ip: 192.168.0.189

3. Type this command:

 vim /etc/inetd.conf 

-This will open the inetd.conf file in Vi editor

4. Press the letter 'i' on your keyboard

5. Now you need to insert the following:

 rsync   stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  /usr/bin/rsync --daemon 

-I placed it in the section below FTP

6. Once completed press 'ESC' then ':' followed with 'wq'

- Pressing escape will remove you from insert mode. Pressing ':' will give you an input line at the bottom of your screen and 'wq' will write and quit.

7. Issue the killall command to restart the inetd.conf

killall -HUP inetd 

8. Check that inetd is loaded

 ps -ef | grep inetd 

It should look like this:

root      1754     1  0 May21 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/inetd
root     10250 10240  0 09:07 pts/0    00:00:00 grep inetd

9. Setup a rsyncd.conf file by doing the following:

 vim /etc/rsyncd.conf 

10. Press the letter 'i' to go into insert mode

11. Enter the following into the conf file

 
uid             = root
gid             = root
use chroot      = no
max connections = 4
pid file        = /var/run/rsyncd.pid
timeout         = 600

[mnt]
   path = /mnt
   comment = /mnt files
   read only = FALSE

12. Press ESC, ':' and 'wq'

13. Now open up another telnet window on the array that has the data you want to copy to the machine we just setup as the Rsync server (for me that is 'Tower' or 192.168.0.199)

14. Type in the following command to being rsync

rsync -av --stats --progress /mnt/disk1/ rsync://192.168.0.189/mnt/disk11/

 

Note that the above will copy disk1 (on tower) to disk11 (on unraid)

 

** I highly suggest that you install Screen from unMenu and add screen to the beginning of the above command

screen  rsync -av --stats --progress /mnt/disk1/ rsync://192.168.0.189/mnt/disk11/

 

This will allow you to close your telnet window and also protect you if you shut down your local PC and still have the rsync script running. To check on the progress you will simply log back into your array and type

screen -x or screen -r

 

 

 

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I'll take a stab at this:

 

 

First create a custom directory on your flash drive if one does not exist:

mkdir /boot/custom

Copy your new /etc/rsyncd.conf to custom:

cp /etc/rsyncd.conf /boot/custom

 

Add these lines to your go file:

echo "rsync   stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  /usr/bin/rsync --daemon" >> /etc/inetd.conf
cp /boot/custom/rsyncd.conf /etc
killall -HUP inetd

 

That should do it.

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I'll take a stab at this:

 

 

First create a custom directory on your flash drive if one does not exist:

mkdir /boot/custom

Copy your new /etc/rsyncd.conf to custom:

cp /etc/rsyncd.conf /boot/custom

 

Add these lines to your go file:

echo "rsync   stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  /usr/bin/rsync --daemon" >> /etc/inetd.conf
cp /boot/custom/rsyncd.conf /etc
killall -HUP inetd

 

That should do it.

 

I thought there was going to be something more to it! I will give this a shot once I push over this 8TB of data!! Thank you again for your help!

 

Now we should clean this all up and add it to the Wiki for 'Transferring Files Between 2 UnRAID servers' as that was the first place I checked...

 

Also - would this work if the arrays were not on the same LAN if you updated the Rsync command syntax?

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This is my scriptlet for adding the entry to inetd.

 

 

if ! grep ^rsync /etc/inetd.conf > /dev/null ; then

cat <<-EOF >> /etc/inetd.conf

rsync  stream  tcp    nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  /usr/bin/rsync --daemon

EOF

read PID < /var/run/inetd.pid

kill -1 ${PID}

fi

 

 

Keep in mind, you still need to copy over the rsyncd.conf file from some area in /boot to /etc

 

Another way is to run rsync in server mode from the go script with a specific path to the config file as in

 

/usr/bin/rsync --daemon --config=/boot/custom/etc/rsyncd.conf  &

 

But this holds a chunk of memory for rsync all the time rather then when needed via inetd.

 

 

 

 

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The server side does not need to be changed. Thats the side with the go file.

The client side:

rsync -av --stats --progress /mnt/disk1/ rsync://192.168.0.189/mnt/disk11/

 

The address of the server, e.g., 192.168.0.189, needs to be reachable from the client.

 

No changes needed; although, performance tuning might help but won't know this until performance is observed.

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