Re: [gentoo-amd64] Quick rsync backup before changing a RAID

2013-06-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> Is 'using ACLs' one of those things that if you don't know then you >> are not? I just run basic Gentoo here. All installs done as per the >> install guide. I don't even use LVM or any

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Quick rsync backup before changing a RAID

2013-06-19 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Is 'using ACLs' one of those things that if you don't know then you > are not? I just run basic Gentoo here. All installs done as per the > install guide. I don't even use LVM or anything fancy. (Which is > likely part of why I'm having to re

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Quick rsync backup before changing a RAID

2013-06-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Thanasis wrote: > on 06/19/2013 10:15 PM Paul Hartman wrote the following: >> I recently rsync'ed a drive between computers, one >> running a Live CD and one not, over ssh, and somehow got all my >> user/groups mixed up > > You should have used the option --numeric

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Quick rsync backup before changing a RAID

2013-06-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Thanasis wrote: > on 06/19/2013 10:15 PM Paul Hartman wrote the following: >> I recently rsync'ed a drive between computers, one >> running a Live CD and one not, over ssh, and somehow got all my >> user/groups mixed up > > You should have used the option --numeri

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Quick rsync backup before changing a RAID

2013-06-19 Thread Thanasis
on 06/19/2013 10:15 PM Paul Hartman wrote the following: > I recently rsync'ed a drive between computers, one > running a Live CD and one not, over ssh, and somehow got all my > user/groups mixed up You should have used the option --numeric-ids (see rsync man page)

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Quick rsync backup before changing a RAID

2013-06-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Panagiotis Christopoulos wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> ... > > 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 an

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Quick rsync backup before changing a RAID

2013-06-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >>I'm wondering whether -avx is what others would use or whether >> there's a better set of options. > > I think that is the typical rsync backup command set as far as I have > ever see

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Quick rsync backup before changing a RAID

2013-06-19 Thread Panagiotis Christopoulos
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > ... > 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. > > Add --progr

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Quick rsync backup before changing a RAID

2013-06-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >I'm wondering whether -avx is what others would use or whether > there's a better set of options. I think that is the typical rsync backup command set as far as I have ever seen. It should work as you expect it to work. Note that if you use

[gentoo-amd64] Quick rsync backup before changing a RAID

2013-06-19 Thread Mark Knecht
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 th