I am moving my rsync backup from  tower2's Linux VM to either a 'User scripts' plugin or '/boot/config/plugins/dynamix/dailybackup.cron'
note that tower2 contains no exported shares (smb, nfs, etc) 

 

So far i have mounted TOWER shares in TOWER2 via 'unassigned devices's smb and manually tested in terminal the commands.  i.e.
ssh root@Tower2IpAddress
rsync -r -v --progress --ignore-existing -s /mnt/disks/TOWER_Media/Music/ /mnt/user/Media/Music
rsync -r -v --progress --delete -s /mnt/disks/TOWER_Backup/ /mnt/user/Backup

 

Strangely in the ssh session, my writes are averaging about 17MB/s and bursting occasionally up to 40MB/s to a SSD 850 Pro cache drive (confirmed writes are to ssd)

 

Should this not be much quicker?
The Cat5e cables are all high quality
The router is a modern high-end prosumer device - Netgear Nighthawk X4s R7800 AC2600
TOWER2 is a D525, and durring this rsync the cpu bounces between 50-75% total use (with 1 alternating thread pegged at 100%).  

Memory stays at about 30% of the 4GB. 
Parity is not being checked and as the family is asleep only the manual rsync was reading from TOWER

 

TOWER's  ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
    Supported ports: [ TP ]
    Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 
                            100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 
                            1000baseT/Full 
    Supported pause frame use: Symmetric
    Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
    Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 
                            100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 
                            1000baseT/Full 
    Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric
    Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
    Speed: 1000Mb/s
    Duplex: Full
    Port: Twisted Pair
    PHYAD: 1
    Transceiver: internal
    Auto-negotiation: on
    MDI-X: on (auto)
    Supports Wake-on: pumbg
    Wake-on: g
    Current message level: 0x00000007 (7)
                   drv probe link
    Link detected: yes

 

TOWER2's  ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
    Supported ports: [ TP ]
    Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 
                            100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 
                            1000baseT/Full 
    Supported pause frame use: No
    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: 1
    Transceiver: internal
    Auto-negotiation: on
    MDI-X: on (auto)
    Supports Wake-on: pumbg
    Wake-on: g
    Current message level: 0x00000007 (7)
                   drv probe link
    Link detected: yes

 

Closest thread i have found follows, however I do not believe this really has the hooks I need.

 

 

Thanks Crew!

Edited December 1, 20178 yr by landS

Suggest remote mount by NFS (then rsync) instead SSH (rsync), it can reach average ~70MB/s.

Rsync use lot of CPU resource and slow transfer but reliable.

Edited December 1, 20178 yr by Benson

thanks benson.

Tested and confirmed, nfs is a little faster than smb for rsync... but i appear to be hitting limitations of the integrated D525 board.

I suppose i can live with this speed in a nightly script for pure backups only.

 

rsync from tower to my linux desktop via smb is much faster than to tower2.

via nfs is reaching just over 60.