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SLOW backing up to USB
Hello all! This is my first post here so forgive me if I'm asking something i did not find in the forums already. We have lots of sites with the NV+ NAS and here is our setup; ESX4 with Vrang...
OK, I am canceling the backup now. I will format EXT3 (or EXT2 if I can figure out how) and start the job over again now.
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mdgm wrote:
russella wrote:
I really want to use NTFS for this, because it will be the only storage repository for my data while I do a factory init on my NV+, and if something (else) goes wrong, I want to be able to access the data easily from a PC. I know there are ways to mount an EXT3 volume from win, but I don't see that it's worth it.
I think it is worth it. If your files are all under 4GB in size per file FAT32 is an option.
russella wrote:
I understand you are implicating the format of the USB disk as the reason for the slow performance. How much faster would it be using EXT3?
See this post which has some rough estimates that chirpa came up with:
chirpa wrote: The speeds are something close to this: NTFS = 2.5MB/s
FAT32 = 5MB/s
EXT3 = 10MB/s
EXT2 = 14MB/s
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