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Aspirant

Oct 29, 2016

Extremely slow transfer speeds over ethernet

I have had my ReadyNAS for a few years now and have always experienced slow network speeds. I have always just assumed that the ReadyNAS was just slow, however I have been researching recently an...

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Spacedementia87

Aspirant

Oct 30, 2016

Thanks for the reply.

I can try using a different method other than rsync, do you know one that shows the progress?

I don't have anything as complicated as you suggest. I only have one drive (2TB) set up with the default netgear raid (think called flex raid or something).

The partitions seem set up by default when I made the shares.

The back up is what I am currently doing using rsync so there should be no backup errors.

I'll have a look at the other logs

StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Oct 30, 2016
Can you tell us your ReadyNAS model (and the firmware it is running)? I'm guessing a duo v1 running 4.1.x firmware, but it would be helpful to know for certain. It would also be useful to know if you have jumbo frames enabled. You could also check the ext journalling setting.

On the old sparc-based NAS, rsync is CPU bound. It's still generally the best method for incremental backup, but not for full copies. That said, you should still be seeing rsync speeds around 4 MB/s with that NAS.

NFS is the fastest way to transfer data to/from a v1 NAS.

Note that the v1 systems are a lot slower than JBDragon1's v2.

Spacedementia87 wrote:

The partitions seem set up by default when I made the shares.

One would be the data partition, the other the OS partition. The OS partition would be only 2 GB - be careful not to fill it.

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