Rsync performance with large exchange database files

Kevin Korb kmk at sanitarium.net
Mon Feb 10 09:57:08 MST 2014


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3.1.0 will probably help some.

What are the specs of the FreeBSD system?  I have found that ZFS on
FreeBSD is extremely RAM hungry.  In my experience 8GB of RAM is the
minimum if dedup is disabled and 16BG of RAM for when dedup is enabled.

Also, a cache disk helps a lot.

On 02/10/2014 10:22 AM, bruce at sqls.net wrote:
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> ------ Original Message ------ From: bruce at sqls.net
> <mailto:bruce at sqls.net> To: rsync at lists.samba.org
> <mailto:rsync at lists.samba.org> Sent: 2/10/2014 8:38:06 AM Subject:
> Rsync performance with large exchange database files
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>> I'm using a mixture of FreeBSD w/ ZFS+snapshots and rsync to
>> backup all the servers at my day job. This works pretty good
>> overall but on one server it's not working so well :)
>> 
>> We have an Exchange 2003 server with 4 separate mail store
>> databases. One of them is roughly 900GB the others are ~200GB,
>> ~160GB, and ~50GB. Rsync seems to spend a lot of time trying to
>> find the differences in the files. On the Windows server where
>> rsync is kicked off there's very little CPU or RAM usage for the
>> rsync client. On the server rsync (rsyncd, no ssh) is using
>> around 70-85% of a cpu (well, half a cpu due to hyper threading).
>> I'm using VSS on the windows server to take a snapshot and expose
>> it then running rsync from that to avoid locking issues.
>> 
>> Is there anything I should check to help narrow down "problems?"
>> or any settings I should try that could help speed things up
>> any?
>> 
>> Below is the final output of the last two rsync runs to give you
>> an idea. It's taking 30-40+ hours to finish even though it's
>> only transferring 80-160GB of change. Right now I'm testing this
>> against a local rsync server so it should get pretty fast network
>> performance. Eventually it will be moved to our off-site backup
>> but that connection is still pretty fast (20 MBbit) and the
>> backup is only hitting 800-1000 Kbytes/sec.
>> 
>> 
>> Number of files: 19 Number of files transferred: 6 Total file
>> size: 1265.74G bytes Total transferred file size: 1057.06G bytes 
>> Literal data: 160.67G bytes Matched data: 896.39G bytes File list
>> size: 482 File list generation time: 0.001 seconds File list
>> transfer time: 0.000 seconds Total bytes sent: 160.71G Total
>> bytes received: 73.74M
>> 
>> sent 160.71G bytes received 73.74M bytes 991.84K bytes/sec total
>> size is 1265.74G speedup is 7.87 [sender] _exit_cleanup(code=0, 
>> file=/home/lapo/package/rsync-3.0.9-1/src/rsync-3.0.9/main.c, 
>> line=1052): about to call exit(0)
>> 
>> real 2833m1.324s user 2225m55.906s sys 45m10.015s
>> 
>> Number of files: 11 Number of files transferred: 6 Total file
>> size: 1268.78G bytes Total transferred file size: 1251.04G bytes 
>> Literal data: 83.43G bytes Matched data: 1167.61G bytes File list
>> size: 216 File list generation time: 1.360 seconds File list
>> transfer time: 0.000 seconds Total bytes sent: 83.48G Total bytes
>> received: 87.25M
>> 
>> sent 83.48G bytes received 87.25M bytes 836.85K bytes/sec total
>> size is 1268.78G speedup is 15.18
>> 
>> real 1745m5.647s user 1129m14.000s sys 39m58.875s
>> 
>> Thanks (in advance) for the help :)
> 
> rsync options I'm using on the client are : -rltihv --progress
> --stats --inplace --modify-window=1
> 
> On the windows client I'm using cygwin + rsync 3.0.9 but I'm going
> to test 3.1.0 there and see if there's a difference.
> 
> On the server it's rsync 3.1.0 running rsyncd.
> 
> Perhaps useful bit of information :).
> 
> 
> 

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