Re: [Cfengine] Re: Purge copy of big directory

[Mark . Burgess]

The thing that I always remind people is that speed is not everything.
You should consider carefully what the purpose of your copy is
and whether the fastest copy is really worth what you lose.

M

On  4 Sep, Bas van der Vlies wrote:
> Adrian Phillips wrote:
> 
>>>>>>>"Bas" == Bas van der Vlies <basv@sara.nl> writes:
>> 
>> 
>>     Bas> cfengine 2.0.7p3 I have a question about the time to copy
>>     Bas> such directory. Maybe i have some wrong settings, but i takes
>>     Bas> more then 1 hour before the copy is finished (It is only
>>     Bas> checking because nothing is changed).
>> 
>> Are both the client and server running 2.0.7p3 ? I understood Mark did
>> some changes in .7 or .6 to speed up copies; I'd commented some months
>> ago how much slower copy was to rsync, and have changed all our larger
>> copies to rsync because of that. I haven't tested these larger copys
>> since the aforementioned speed ups though.
>> 
>> Sincerely,
>> 
>> Adrian Phillips
>> 
> Both machines are running 2.0.7p3. I now have cfengine class that 
> activates a rsync for /usr/local on the fileservers.
> 
>       Regards
> 



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