Nice! I didn't use -H -X and the system had to do some clean up. I'll add this in my next migration progress as I move 120TB to new hard drives. On Mon, 2019-04-01 at 14:27 -0400, Tom Fite wrote: > Hi all, > I have a very large (65 TB) brick in a replica 2 volume that needs to > be re-copied from scratch. A heal will take a very long time with > performance degradation on the volume so I investigated using rsync > to do the brunt of the work. > > The command: > > rsync -av -H -X --numeric-ids --progress server1:/data/brick1/gv0 > /data/brick1/ > > Running with -H assures that the hard links in .glusterfs are > preserved, and -X preserves all of gluster's extended attributes. > > I've tested this on my test environment as follows: > > 1. Stop glusterd and kill procs > 2. Move brick volume to backup dir > 3. Run rsync > 4. Start glusterd > 5. Observe gluster status > > All appears to be working correctly. Gluster status reports all > bricks online, all data is accessible in the volume, and I don't see > any errors in the logs. > > Anybody else have experience trying this? > > Thanks > -Tom > > _______________________________________________Gluster-users mailing > listgluster-us...@gluster.org > https://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users -- James P. Kinney III
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