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Legacy Forums => General Discussion (Legacy) => Topic started by: rick1908 on November 15, 2004, 11:34:59 PM
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I am rsync'ing data from an old SME 5.6 server/hardware (server 1) to new 6.01 server/harware (server 2). Some of the old ibays are rather large and copying them via Windows Explorer was a bit slow. I got rsync (dungog rsync contrib) running over ssh between the two servers. However the transfer speed is terribly slow.
Here are a few throughput speeds I have odserved:
1. Windows Explorer drag/drop speed about 52KB/s
2. Rsync speed about 32KB/s
3. Internet downloads about 250KB/s
4. Throughput test from server 1 about 40 to 60 megabits/second (via WS_Ping ProPack)
5. Throughput test from server 2 about 40 to 60 megabits/second (via WS_Ping ProPack)
Both computers are connected to a switch and both are 10/100 network cards from the SME Hardware list.
Anyone have this kind of experience before? Is this normal rsync speed?
Server 1 = PIII 450 with 512MB Ram
Server 2 = PIV 2.4 with 1 gig Ram
Thanks for your help.
Rick Evans
P.S. The windows explorer speed was actually observed using a program called WinNc.net (a Midnight Commander clone for windows).
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Hi,
Does the how-to says who the author is. Maybe you can contact him/her for specific problems on that specific contrib / how-to. Next to the info you probably will get in return, I'm sure Stepen Noble would appreciate your feedback!
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Thanks, I have done that prior to posting here. However, thinking about the question further, I considered this a general rsync/networking type question.
The contrib is only a server manger front end.
I did get a reply from dungog. Their observation was that rsync dose carry more overhead, over drag-n-drop, as it performs a bit by bit comparison of the file.
My concern is more with the general network speed of copying. Why would the internet yeild greater copying(downloading) speeds over a server to server copy on the same subnet?
Thanks for your help.
-Rick