On Fri, 13 Jul 2018, Jim Conger wrote: > I have had some odd problems with corruption in ext4 file systems with > vaults in them, so I fsck the vault file system after every backup. I > think I read something about ext4 and hard links being a problem which > would be bad news for dirvish since it is all about hard links. I'm happy > with ext4 as long as I check it each time.
Jim, Excellent advice which I appreciate. > I'm not sure what you are asking. I am sure that your / file system is > backed up to salmo-root, Er, yes. This I know but missed when I wrote the message. > Partition, create volumes, make file systems, etc. on the new 2T drive with > out the current backup connected. Avoids accidents. > > When you are ready to copy, mount the old backup drive read only, "mount -o > ro /dev/WHATEVER /mnt/hd". Avoids accidents. Voice of experience. > > Use rsync with all the right options to copy pretty much every detail, see > man page for rsync, but "rsync -a --stats /mnt/hd/. /mnt/NEWDRIVE/." should > do it. Note the trailing /. on the paths, that makes sure you are copying > everything in the old to the new, including the permissions of /mnt/hd/. > itself. Again, valuable advice. Thank you. Regards, Rich _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list Dirvish@dirvish.org http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
