Server to Server Transfer

[crazynight]

I am currently backing up my V5 Beta to a fresh V6 build and am getting around 35Mb/sec transfer rate via rsync does this sound about right?  No cache or parity on the V6 I plan to copy everything then introduce a parity.

 

Both servers are connected via 1gig to a dedicated 1gig switch.

 

Thanks

 

[gundamguy]

It's hard to say for sure, without more details about your setup (controller cards) number of drives, etc.

 

But that doesn't seem completely off if you've got your parity disk mounted.

 

You could speed this up (in theory) by not installing your parity disk until the end (then it would rebuild parity which would take awhile, but would speed up the transfer)

[crazynight]

Unraid V5.0-rc8a (Source server)

HP Microserver - AMD Turion II Neo N40L Dual-Core Processor

8GB Ram

Using the onboard SATA bays

WDC_WD30EFRX - 3TB - Parity

WDC_WD20EARX - 2TB  - Data 1

WDC_WD20EZRX - 2TB  - Data 3

WDC_WD30EFRX - 3TB  - Data 3

 

Unraid 6.1.6 (Destination)

A8N-SLI Premium

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ @ 2000

2gb Ram

Using the onboard SATA ports.

Hitachi_HDS721010CLA332 - 1TB - Data 1

Hitachi_HDT721010SLA360 - 1TB - Data 2

Hitachi_HDT721010SLA360 - 1TB - Data 3

Hitachi_HDT721010SLA360 - 1TB - Data 4

Parity or Cache

[Frank1940]

Transfer speed is also effected by the sizes of the files.  If you have a lot of small files rather a small number of large size files, the overhead of all file creations will slow things down.