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Hi, |
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I need to change the RAID layout on my home server. This change |
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does _not_ involve the running RAID6 with Gentoo on it (at least at |
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the moment) but only a rather old, large and ill-placed second RAID6 |
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that has some _very_ important Virtualbox VMs. Now, I have backup |
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scripts for protecting this stuff, and I use them every night, but |
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I've never had to do a restore so at this point I don't know whether |
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they really work. The files are there (checked by hand anyway) but who |
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knows if permissions or something else might cause a problem so I want |
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to be extra careful. |
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Today, I created a new backup USB drive and want to do an rsync to |
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that drive as a second backup. I intend to restore from this drive |
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later today when the RAIDs are rebuilt and ready to go. I'd like some |
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ideas on best practices for using rsync to do this job. |
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My current scripts use this basic format: |
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mark@c2RAID6 ~ $ cat ./DoBackups |
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mount /backups |
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rsync -avx /VirtualMachines/VMWare/. /backups/VMWare |
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rsync -avx /VirtualMachines/Virtualbox/. /backups/Virtualbox |
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rsync -avx /home/. /backups/home |
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cd |
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umount /backups |
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mark@c2RAID6 ~ $ |
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I'm wondering whether -avx is what others would use or whether |
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there's a better set of options. |
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When the RAID comes back up I want to reverse and copy back from |
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USB drive to the /VirtualMachines directory. |
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Thanks in advance, |
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Mark |
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