March 2010 – Mellowhost Blog

New R1Soft nodes online!

In last couple of weeks, we have logged a couple of IO issues with the backup servers. It seems, it was needing a couple of hardware upgrades and a network upgrade too. We have finally decided to use Limestonenetwork for our R1Soft backup servers. A reason of not using Softlayer this time is to use a different network to keep the backup away from SL network for maximum security. We have already completed the migration of R1Soft backup to the new nodes with better hardware and network capability to improve data transfer and IO process. I have tried to defrag the backup spaces to see the IO performance, it seems around 6 times faster than before right now. Mellowhost is intended to provide the best performance for your business with continuous data security. Please do not hesitate to provide your feedback if you feel any of the specific area of the service needs to be fixed.

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Rsync with Custom SSH Port

We are running R1Soft as our backup software for last 4 months. We have converted almost all of our servers into R1Soft. But we still have couple of very old server (Aging 4 years) who are using Rsync. We have recently moved our backup server and found that changing the SSH port for the backup server was necessary. By default, rsync command won’t work with custom SSH port as it assume the SSH port is set to 22. To use a custom port you need to use the attribute ‘-e’. Here is an example of using Rsync with Custom SSH port 2287:

rsync -vrplogDtH -e “ssh -p 2287” /home [email protected]:/backup/

Just posted it thinking it might be useful for some users 🙂