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