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Re: Copy Times for Remote Copy


From: Mark . Burgess
Subject: Re: Copy Times for Remote Copy
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 16:52:03 +0100 (MET)

Cfengine cannot compete with rsync for large transfers. BUt it offers
you greater management control and security with its checks.
So...horses for courses,
M


On 30 Jan, Phil D'Amore wrote:
> IIRC there was a speed enhancement fix in 2.0.6 but I don't remember 
> there being anything significant after that.  I also tried to use 
> cfengine to solve this particular problem with much less than 27000+ 
> files, only about 7000, and after seeing how many things cfengine did to 
> check one file, even if it didn't have to copy it (just run with verbose 
> and debugging sometime and watch the fun), I also came to the conclusion 
> that cfengine isn't optimized for this sort of thing, and to make it so 
> would probably not be trivial.  I would up running with my tail between 
> my legs back to rsync+ssh and never looked back.  Since the thing I was 
> syncing was the cfengine files repository itself, I figured that was 
> pretty acceptable ;).
> 
> Reenen Kroukamp wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 07:45:01AM -0400, Andrew Greenwood wrote:
>>  
>>
>>>Doesn't seem to be an issue with the network.. The SCP sends a 371MB
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>Try doing the copy in both directions, eg:
>>
>>      scp bigfile remote_server:
>>      scp remote_server:bigfile .
>>
>>  
>>
>>>file in 30secs.. Perhaps it is due to copying so many files??
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>Yes lots of files will cause delays. I concur with whoever suggested
>>rsync. It is definately the tool of choice for this kind of thing.
>>
>>The delay _is_ quite big though. More details? Number of files,
>>sizes, OS, file system?
>>
>>-Reenen
>>
>>  
>>
> 



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