[PLUG] rsync options for backup

[Rich Shepard]

On Sat, 23 Jun 2018, Russell Senior wrote:

> Not generally. Moving disks is often to get a bigger drive, in which case
> you want a bigger filesystem, including more inodes. Using dd and resizing
> (afaik) does not increase the number of inodes available. I'm typically
> doing this on RAID1 block devices so duplicating to a new drive (e.g. in
> case of drive failure) is handled by the RAID layer.

Russell,

   Okay. Thanks.

   I've no need now to move the backup, but that drive's been in use for a
number of years (off during the day, on at night) and I'm thinking of being
prepared for the need to replace it.

Regards,

Rich