Bruce KIlpatrick wrote:
> 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.
>
I should have looked before I leapt!
rsync --version
rsync version 3.0.5...I am running Kubuntu 9.04
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