> Petcher, Daniel wrote: DP> > My boss just had a good idea: he suggested exporting an NFS share, then DP> > rsync will think it's working locally and not bother with the SSH tunnel.
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 10:43:38PM -0500, Bernd Haug wrote: BH> Now, if you want to do a full copy and don't care about bandwidth and BH> transfer volume consumption, why use rsync in the first place and don't BH> just cp to the NFS share? BH> BH> It'll simply copy when both sides are local; at least that's how I read DP> > You can also use rsync in local-only mode, where both the source DP> > and destination don't have a ':' in the name. In this case it behaves DP> > like an improved copy command. BH> in the rsync man page. A reminder - using any file-level tool (like rsync or cp or dump or tar) to copy a complete Dirvish vault, with tens or hundreds of images hard-linked together, may take a very long time. Even though the final result (preferably using rsync) will be a similar collection of hard-linked files of the same size (with only the date stamps on the soft-linked files different), the system at the sending end will have to walk through every one of the source images. This can take many days or even weeks. It can be easier to just copy the partition as a binary file, then use some tool to resize it at the target end. I am learning about lvm and the Redhat tool resize2fs (which I just used to double the size of an active partition - scary!), and will try them on a dirvish bank soon. See also the ancient: http://wiki.dirvish.org/index.cgi?CopyingDisks Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
