On Wed 20 Jan 2010, Bernd Haug wrote:
> What do you use when you need to move whole banks to other hosts (or
> other file systems)?
I usually just move the latest image, and let time take care of the rest :)
> • the BSD dump port - it needs too much temp space (i.e., multi-GiB)
> for filesystems with a large directory structure and is also quite
> slow
Why temp space? You can pipe from dump to dump
> I can imagine that making a faster tool that does not have to search
> for other files that link there is possible -- in pythocode:
> multilinkers = {}
> for file in files:
> if multilinked(file):
> if inode(file) in multilinkers:
> link(multilinkers[inode(file)], newname(file))
> else:
> copy(file, newname(file))
> multilinkers[inode(file)] = newname(file)
>
> This should end up using < 1GiB of VM even on pretty big filesystems,
> which should be well worth the overhead for faster sync on modern
> servers...
I can't imagine that this would be faster than just using rsync.
You could copy each image one by one, which might be quicker:
(untested :-)
cd $oldvault
previous="name of 1st available image"
rsync -aH --numeric-ids $previous/ $newvault/$previous/
for i in *; do
if [ "$i" != "$previous" -a "$i" != "dirvish" ]; then # skip 1st one and
dirvish dir
rsync -aH --numeric-ids --link-dest=../$previous/ $i/ $newvault/$i/
previous="$i"
fi
done
Paul
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