<div dir="ltr">we use rsync to a zfsonlinux fs with compression + dedup and snapshots for incrementals.<div><br></div><div>works well :)</div><div><br></div><div>means your most recent copy is a live fs people can access easily.</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 9:44 PM Bill Wichser <<a href="mailto:bill@princeton.edu">bill@princeton.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">We have moved to a rsync disk backup system, from TSM tape, in order to <br>
have a DR for our 10 PB GPFS filesystem. We looked at a lot of options <br>
but here we are.<br>
<br>
md5 checksums take a lot of compute time with huge files and even with <br>
millions of smaller ones. The bulk of the time for running rsync is <br>
spent in computing the source and destination checksums and we'd like to <br>
alleviate that pain of a cryptographic algorithm.<br>
<br>
Googling around, I found no mention of using a technique like this to <br>
improve rsync performance. I did find reference to a few hashing <br>
algorithms though which could certainly work here (xxhash, murmurhash, <br>
sbox, cityhash64).<br>
<br>
Rsync has certainly been around for a few years! We are going to pursue <br>
changing the current checksum algorithm and using something much faster. <br>
If anyone has done this already and would like to share their <br>
experiences that would be wonderful. Ideally this could be some optional <br>
plugin for rsync where users could choose which checksummer to use.<br>
<br>
Bill<br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Dr Stuart Midgley<br><a href="mailto:sdm900@gmail.com" target="_blank">sdm900@gmail.com</a></div></div>