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Hi, |
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I would like to back up a mounted RAID0 to a mounted RAID1. I've |
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not used rsync before but it seems very well suited for this task. The |
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contents of the RAID0 are currently very simple - just some iso images |
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and two VMWare Windows XP installs. I don't see any links in there. |
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However my iso directory I did create a few links: |
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mark@c2stable ~ $ ls -al /virdata/isoImages/ |
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total 1184672 |
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drwxrwxrwx 2 mark users 4096 Apr 15 14:09 . |
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drwxrwxrwx 4 mark users 4096 Apr 14 14:57 .. |
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-rwxrwxrwx 1 mark users 667621376 Apr 15 08:36 Win98.iso |
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-rwxrwxrwx 1 mark users 544276480 Apr 14 15:16 WinXPHome.iso |
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lrwxrwxrwx 1 mark users 9 Apr 15 14:09 XP2_CD1 -> Win98.iso |
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lrwxrwxrwx 1 mark users 13 Apr 15 14:08 XP2_CD2 -> WinXPHome.iso |
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mark@c2stable ~ $ |
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If those are going to cause problems I can likely get rid of them. |
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Would the following command be appropriate to backup /virdata on |
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RAID0 to /backups on RAID1? |
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rsync -avx /virdata/. /backups/. |
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It appears that maybe the -a option wouldn't copy the links? |
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Longer term I want to figure out how to rotate backups but for now |
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I just want to get a copy safely to RAID1 before the end of the day. |
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Also, how does rsync handle the backup if the RAID0 directory is |
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active and changing? Will it keep working until there are no |
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differences? Or does it read once and copy? |
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Thanks, |
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Mark |
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