On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 01:08:14PM +0200, Tuxoholic wrote: > Hi list > > I'm about to clone 1TB of server data to a new file server I'm building. > > Cloning will happen over the internal network, and it will take several days, > since I'll only run it while I'm awake/at home and checking up on the > progress > every once in a while. > > rsync seems like the right choice, but how will it handle job canceling when > I'm done for the day? > > - will it resume files properly?
I use rsync for syncing and backups everyday, but I always do babysit it or at least check it when it finishes. Not sure if it will "resume files properly", but certainly it will update appropriately when used correctly. > - will it run some sort of check sum to verify file integrity, or will I have > to run myself an integrity check like md5sum afterwards? > Certainly wouldn't hurt, though I don't think it's necessary... > > What's the right set of parameters to call rsync from a shell script? I'm not > used to sync such huge amount of files and directories, so I'm unclear about > how to call rsync in this case. > > Here's what I got so far from google research: > > rsync --sockopts=SO_SNDBUF=128000,SO_RCVBUF=128000 -e rsh --archive \ > --recursive --partial --partial-dir=rsync-part --progress --append \ > --files-from=/root/LISTOFFILES.txt --log-file=/root/rsync.log \ > root@myserver:/PATH2myOLDServerPool/* /mnt/Mount2myNewServerPool > > LISTOFFILES.txt was created using: > rsync --list-only > /root/LISTOFFILES.txt > Often I use something like: rsync --archive --one-file-system --hard-links --human-readable --inplace --numeric-ids --delete --progress --exclude-from '/home/indulekha/.rsync-exclude / /copy_of_system/ to duplicate a system, with the '~/.rsync-exclude' file containing files and directories to ignore. Hopefully it's obvious that "copy_of_system" is a path you determine. > Can somebody comment on the parameters, e.g. how these will work fine with > job > canceling and how this will handle file integrity? https://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/storage/8200-back-up-like-an-expert-with-rsynchttp://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/09/rsync-command-examples/ > Is it safe to hit ctr+c to cancel the job, or is a SIGHUP to the rsync task > the recommended/necessary way? > ctrl-c will work. HTH! -- ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ Indulekha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120501163826.GB15438@radhesyama
