Ghosting with Linux

[Dustin Decker]

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Jason Clinton wrote:

> 
> Jason Clinton wrote:
> 
>       I'll let everyone know how the 10 GB NTFS partition with 7 GB of data on it
>       compresses down to and how long it took to make a backup accross a 100 Mbit
>       connection.
> 
> The back-up file ended up being around 5GB. We had 100 mbits (as indicated by the switch)
> between the two systems. The backup took about 6 hours. That's less than a 10 mbit transfer
> rate. I was not able to ascertain the bottleneck. CPU usage was below 30%. The hard drive
> lights on both boxen were blinking intermittently.

You running at full duplex?
D.

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