On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 03:08:02PM -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
> On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 03:23:34PM +0200, Vlad Popa wrote:
> > Hi Jon ,
> > Jon LaBadie schrieb:
> > >On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 11:53:57PM +0200, Vlad Popa wrote:
> > >>Hello Jon !
> > >>Jon LaBadie schrieb:
> > >>>On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 12:05:21PM +0200, Vlad Popa wrote:
> > >>>I'll ask Paul's question slightly differently.
> > >>>How can you WANT to run any slower (see below).
> > >>>>DUMP SUMMARY:
> > >>>>HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-kB OUT-kB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS
> > >>>>KB/s
> > >>>>-------------------------- ---------------------------------
> > >>>>------------
> > >>>>h50234 /etc 0 2440 2440 -- 0:03 930.1 9:26
> > >>>>4.3
> > >>>This was your biggest, and speediest successful taping.
> > >>>It only ran at 4300 bytes/sec
> > >>>Something is seriously wrong with your network connection to your vtape.
> > >>>I strongly urge you to fix your network connection rather than continue
> > >>>to try to get amanda (or any application) to work with a broken network.
> > >>You are absolutely right Jon, but I cannot tweak more the lufs.
> > >I was thinking more of the hardware end of the setup. There have been
> > >frequent mentions of poor network performance when a switch and host
> > >are not configured correctly. Sometimes depending on the auto-config
> > >feature of the switch or host does not give the best connection.
> > >>I have tested native ftp transfers to this host (beside lufs) which were
> > >>at about 4.3 mb per sec ("ftp hostname" and then "put file ..") for
> > >>several files differring significantly in their size. The rate did not
> > >>fall below 4 megs per sec.
> > >Just an interesting observation, amanda sees 4.3 kb/sec, you got 4.3 mb/sec
> > >for ftp transfers.
> > >No other way to access that remote disk than still beta lufs and ftp?
> > Nope, no other way than ftp access. Using lufs or not using it is up to
> > me. I will never see this server . We have rented a root server which
> > is probably located in Berlin or elsewhere. The rent is including
> > access to a ftp share on their server for backups) . We have only
> > some kind of console and ssh access.
> If you have ssh access you should be able to use rsync, no?
Or perhaps try scp just to see if the slowness is specific to lufs/ftp.
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