From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 5 20:16:15 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5853F16A403 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2007 20:16:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@webtent.net) Received: from tpa-hosting.webtent.net (tpa-hosting.webtent.net [208.38.145.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10A4013C448 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2007 20:16:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@webtent.net) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (74-140-227-153.dhcp.insightbb.com [74.140.227.153]) by tpa-hosting.webtent.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l05KGDR0021850 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2007 15:16:13 -0500 Message-ID: <459EB20C.80702@webtent.net> Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:16:12 -0500 From: Robert Fitzpatrick User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Tar backup on geom mirror drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: robert@webtent.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 20:16:15 -0000 I am backing up a big home partition that results in 46GB tar.gz file directly to another FreeBSD machine via NFS and it is taking from 9:30pm until almost 7am the next morning. The source home partition is on a geom mirrored slice, could this be the reason for such a slow backup? The destination server is using RAID, but from the BIOS, not geom. Both servers are using gigabit cards through a gigabit switch. -- Robert