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Store and backup 200 million small files

My disk are 10x1TB SAS 7200 RPM in a RAID 10 with a MegaRaid 9260 hardware controller with cache/BBU. This results in a 4.6TB RAID 10 volume. hdparm -t (when device is empty) results in 500MB/s. RAID ...
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How to copy a large RAID1 XFS partition with over-allocated space

I have a NAS server with 12 1T drives in a RAID10 linux soft array. The main data area is a 5.4TB XFS partition. On that partition, I've been creating iSCSI disk images, taking advantage of XFS's ...
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How should I backup this large volume?

I have a 10TB XFS filesystem on a SLES 10.2 server. I am currently running rsync on it once per day, to sync it with a disk-based online backup on another server. The primary volume is quite busy as ...
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xfsdump: Spanning multiple drives

I'm trying to create a one-off snapshot of 5.5TB of data to 3 external 2TB drives. The data is on an XFS partition, so the logical option seemed to be xfsdump, as it can span multiple devices. As a ...