On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Jaime Nebrera Herrera wrote:
> So we have decided to start two projects out of this: > > 1) The first one will just make a complete backup of the system in a > second hard disk, with a manager webpage that lets you force the backup and > recover from it. It won't be able to boot by itself. What is the advantage of this over RAID-1, which will operate continuously, without requiring manager intervention, and which *will* be able to boot by itself? > 2) The second one requires some extra work and was the original idea. > Install an embedded linux distro in the second hd and configure e-smith in > such a way that in case of system corruption it can boot up from it and > recover the system. This project will follow as soon as we can and finish > the first one. Again, what is the advantage of this over RAID-1 plus backup? > The question is, why if I run it in just one command rsync hangs up but if > I do exactly the same but once for each directory it works perfectly right? I think that rsync has a few bugs. We've noticed a few problems with it, although most of the time it works just as advertised. Try running strace on the hung program and seeing what it is up to. Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lead Product Developer Network Server Solutions Group http://www.e-smith.com/ Mitel Networks Corporation http://www.mitel.com/ Phone: +1 (613) 368 4376 or 564 8000 Fax: +1 (613) 564 7739 -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
