On Fri, 13 Jul 2018, Nathan Hunsperger wrote: > So, the full command I would use is "sudo rsync -aSHAX -v --stats > /mnt/olddrive/ /mnt/newdrive". The trailing slash on olddrive is required, > and will result in the root of the new drive having the same attributes as > the old drive.
Nathan, This, too, is valuable information. > As to the question about initializing the FS on the new drive -- One thing > I would check is how your current backup drive inode utilization (tune2fs > -l) is looking. The mechanism Dirvish uses to save disk space results in > higher-than-normal inode usage. How high depends on how many backups you > keep and the nature of the data you are backing up. If your current "Free > inodes" to "Inode count" ratio looks good, just create the new FS as > normal. If you are running short on inodes, read up on mke2fs -i option. > You will most likely be fine with the defaults. Very interesting. I've not needed to learn about inodes before. Thank you. Regards, Rich _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list Dirvish@dirvish.org http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
