Re: rsync mechanics question

2007-05-10 Thread Izidor Jerebic
On 10.5.2007, at 2:16, Tom Riley wrote: I have 2 mounts on a single computer the production mount is 100gigs (/msgstore) and contains rough 17 million small files (email message store), and a newly created 500g ufs file system (/mnt) However, the curiosity comes in with my source data

Re: rsync mechanics question

2007-05-10 Thread Bob Bagwill
On Wed, 09 May 2007 15:18:38 -0400, Tom Riley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At present time, the destination volume is 2.5 times the size of the original volume. Have you tried the --sparse option? -- Bob Bagwill -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync

RE: rsync mechanics question

2007-05-10 Thread Tom Riley
@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: rsync mechanics question Tom Riley wrote: However, the curiosity comes in with my source data taking up 86gigs of data on a 100g partition, and as the copy progresses the destination drive is reporting 240 gigs of usage. So as far as I can tell, rsync is working

Re: rsync mechanics question

2007-05-09 Thread JamesDR
Tom Riley wrote: Hey All, I’ve been using rsync (2.6.9) to migrate a 90g message store volume and I’m running into some interesting results. I have two FC storage arrays attached to a Sunfire V280R, running Solaris 8. My 100gig volume is on a Sun StoreEdge 3510, and my new 500gig

Re: rsync mechanics question

2007-05-09 Thread JamesDR
JamesDR wrote: Tom Riley wrote: Hey All, I’ve been using rsync (2.6.9) to migrate a 90g message store volume and I’m running into some interesting results. I have two FC storage arrays attached to a Sunfire V280R, running Solaris 8. My 100gig volume is on a Sun StoreEdge 3510, and

Re: rsync mechanics question

2007-05-09 Thread Matt McCutchen
On 5/9/07, JamesDR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By using --inplace (if I read that right) you'll be xfering the entire 90GB store over the network. Not exactly. --inplace only prevents the receiver from matching source data using data at an earlier offset in the old destination file (because the

Re: rsync mechanics question

2007-05-09 Thread Matt McCutchen
On 5/9/07, Tom Riley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using rsync (2.6.9) to migrate a 90g message store volume and I'm running into some interesting results. Please be more specific about what is going wrong. If you get an error message, please send the exact text. If rsync is successful,

RE: rsync mechanics question

2007-05-09 Thread Tom Riley
09, 2007 2:56 PM To: Tom Riley Cc: rsync@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: rsync mechanics question On 5/9/07, Tom Riley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using rsync (2.6.9) to migrate a 90g message store volume and I'm running into some interesting results. Please be more specific about

Re: rsync mechanics question

2007-05-09 Thread Jamie Lokier
Tom Riley wrote: However, the curiosity comes in with my source data taking up 86gigs of data on a 100g partition, and as the copy progresses the destination drive is reporting 240 gigs of usage. So as far as I can tell, rsync is working and the data integrity seems good, it's simply taking