Kris wrote: > Bruce KIlpatrick wrote: >> I have been working to learn a bit about rsync, in preperation for >> upgrading to Jaunty. After reading several tutorials, reading some of >> the man page, and generally messing around with some minor changes in >> syntax, I came up with the following. > > I'll chime in about my recent experience with rsync. > > I had lot of hardlink-based data to ship (Zimbra). I installed from source > the > latest release of 3.0 as it incrementally handles harlinks in realtime vs. > building a huge table in memory about how things are linked. > > I've been pushing the Ubuntu 8.04 backport of rsync3 ever since. > > My standard usage is 'rsync -axHP' when I need hardlink aware copying. When > working with VM filesystems outside the guest (either Xen LVs or KVM qcow2's), > remember to use '--numeric-ids' or the rsync will use the UIDs of your local > system when copying. > > I will probably need to modify my standard to include '-A' as more ACL usage > is > occurring these days. > > In the end, this post is more of a "get on the 3.0.x bandwagon.. it rocks!". > :)
Kris, Thank you. I was glad to read the last line as most of what you were saying was over my head. Our needs are minimal in comparison...I will look into 3.0, soon. Bruce _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
