[PLUG] rsync

Bruce KIlpatrick bakilpatrick at verizon.net
Wed Jun 3 02:30:45 UTC 2009


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



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