<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 June 2015 at 12:04, Russell Coker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:russell@coker.com.au" target="_blank">russell@coker.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">What's the best way of backing up 30TB of data?<br>
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The 2 servers with ZFS pools are connected by GigE, which really isn't<br>
suitable for backing up 15TB of data. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>You might be surprised.</div><div><br></div><div><div>Reading metadata, head seeks, rotation etc slows things down.</div></div><div>Often, file transfers are limited to single disk spindle read rates<br></div><div>i.e. ~ 100 MB/s or ~ 1 Gbit/s</div><div><br></div><div>_If_ you can keep a 1 Gbit/s Ethernet link full, it can transfer 10 TB per day.</div><div>See <a href="http://techinternets.com/copy_calc">http://techinternets.com/copy_calc</a></div><div><br></div><div>15 TB in < 2 days isn't too long to wait for the initial backup.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div> John</div></div></div></div>