On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 08:27, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > > Hello, > I am wondering if anyone can help me with this scenario. > > Suppose I want to copy large data set over the net (about 20 GB). it's a bunch > of files with directories and subdirectories, so basically I'm trying to copy > a directory tree. > Now, I don't want to copy the whole thing in one sit since it's large. I want > to do it incrementally during off-peak hours, so, say everyday between 2-3 AM > I would copy 500 MB, and then the next day continue with another ~500MB, and > the next day, etc, etc, until it's completed. The content of source directory > will change, although not by much at all, so this needs to be able to keep > trakc of that and sync with the changes. > > I have a shell access (SSH) on both machines, the source machine, and the > target machine. My local machine is the target machine. So I think something > like 'rsync' should probably work, combine with something else for scheduling > (cron maybe). But I am not sure how to stop after the first ~500 MB is > transferred, and continue the next day (of course the number 500MB does not > have to be exact, it could be a rough rounding, because it's probably easier > to stop after one file is completed, than stop in the middle of the file). >
I would set up individual jobs of the approximate size and use rsync (over ssh of course) on them for the initial runs and then run rsysnc daily to keep them in sync. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
