First FreeNAS build "complete". Can I improve data transfer from Synology 1812+ to FreeNAS?

[Tacks]

I finished my build and burn in recently. I'm now in the process of transferring (1 rsync process) the data from my Synology 1812+ to my FreeNAS server . I haven't touched the Network interface yet, nor turned on link aggregation. I've only dug into the configuration previously enough for my immediate needs and now want to optimize all parts.

Any suggestions on getting the data faster? I want to take advantage of all the features on my FreeNAS.

 

[hugovsky]

How fast is faster? what are your speeds?

 

[Tacks]

That would be helpful. Looking over the last 100 files transfers its approx 26.06MB/s

 

[hugovsky]

I could be cpu bottleneck. Can you see cpu usage on both ends?

 

[Pheran]

Link aggregation won't help you between two boxes. It's only useful for lots of clients. You will not get any higher than 1 Gbps from any transfer between two endpoints. That being said, 26 MB/s seems slow for gigabit, which typically will max out around 110 MB/s. Given your system specs, your FreeNAS box should be able to do way better than that. I'd benchmark both FreeNAS and Synology individually from one client; if one is slow you've found where you need to look for the bottleneck; if both are fast then there's something wrong with the transfer method you are using.

 

[cyberjock]

rsync is always slow. I feel that 26MB/sec is pretty much par for the course with a synology.

 

[zetoniak]

I'm with problems with the same step, i could achieve to authenticate with the certificate against synology, but my pull process doesnt seems to run, this is what it created on my /etc/crontab:

PATH="/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/root/bin" /usr/bin/lockf -s -t 0 -k "/mnt/Sata/Torrent" /usr/local/bin/rsync -r -t -z -p -X --delay-updates -e "ssh -p 22 -o BatchMode=yes -o StrictHostKeyChecking=yes" "root"@10.0.0.115:\""/volume1/"\" "/mnt/Sata/Torrent" 2>&1 |/usr/bin/logger -t rsync

I also tryed mounting a NFS and cron a rsync with this format:

rsync --progress -a /mnt/Sata/Synology_Back/FreeNAS/ /mnt/Sata/Tecnico/

but it doesnt work either, if i put the command over ssh it works.

Why is this happening?
Are there cron jobs logging,? i couldn't find them