Re: Data Migration

2003-07-24 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 7/24/2003 09:16 +0100, you wrote: This makes Perfect sense and I thank you for the guidance I have (somewhere) the rsync script I used to run a Red Hat mirror site. Since I only wanted to mirror en and es languages, skip alpha architectures, and start mirroring from the latest release back to

Re: Data Migration

2003-07-24 Thread Alan Harding
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 11:08:18 -0600 "Rodolfo J. Paiz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For example, if you are transferring the whole RedHat FTP site, you can > exclude (one by one) all the directories in /pub/redhat/linux/ (i.e. 3.0.3, > 4.0, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.

Re: Data Migration

2003-07-23 Thread Greg Bell
>Also, look at the >bandwidth limit ("--bwlimit") option, it won't limit the instantaneous >bandwidth for transferring a single file, but it will put pauses >between files to keep the average down. I'm not so sure it doesn't limit bandwidth during a single file... I added the --bwlimit option to a

Re: Data Migration

2003-07-23 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 7/23/2003 11:43 +0100, you wrote: I have an "oppurtunity" to migrate some data from one Unix server to another. I was going to use *nix tools to do it and had plumped for Rsync. I have a lot of data to move (1.5Tb+ from one site and 1Tb+ from another), but time is not an issue, reliability o

Re: Data Migration

2003-07-23 Thread Aly Dharshi
Hello All, I haven't much experience with this but I think that NFS shouldn't be too bad for this especially as you are doing things over time, you can do a certian portion first then another and another , so on and so forth. Another thing to look at is to see how site mirroring tools work, I

Re: Data Migration

2003-07-23 Thread Alan Harding
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 07:22:10 -0700 (PDT) Jonathan Bartlett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What are you trying to do? > Its actually a migration from one system to another. It is a one time as such, but we where hoping to do a base copy whilst the system is live and then eventually disconnect a

Re: Data Migration

2003-07-23 Thread Kent Borg
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 03:12:08PM +0100, Kelerion wrote: > I'm not exactly an expert on this subject (or many others for that > matter) but is NFS really a suitable solutions to transfering 1.5TB+ of > data over a network?? I didn't think it was *very* stable... Previous messages have suggested

Re: Data Migration

2003-07-23 Thread Jonathan Bartlett
What are you trying to do? If you are just _moving_ the data one-time, I would probably use something other than NFS. However, if it's a remote filesystem for Multimedia, I would use NFS. Jon On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Kelerion wrote: > I'm not exactly an expert on this subject (or many others for t

Re: Data Migration

2003-07-23 Thread Kelerion
I'm not exactly an expert on this subject (or many others for that matter) but is NFS really a suitable solutions to transfering 1.5TB+ of data over a network?? I didn't think it was *very* stable... Just a thought Kel van Aswegen, Marinus (ZA - Johannesburg) wrote: Hi Alan There are many t

RE: Data Migration

2003-07-23 Thread van Aswegen, Marinus (ZA - Johannesburg)
Hi Alan There are many transfer mechanism you can use provided you have space on the destination. Is the information confidential ? You can try FTP, NFS or even RSYNC. Regards, Marinus van Aswegen Principal Consultant Deloitte & Touche Security Services Group Phone: +27-(0)11-209-6324 Fax:

Re: Data Migration

2003-07-23 Thread Eric Wood
Alan, rsync should do just fine. You might want to do a --dry-run to see the outcome. Also, check out whether or not you need to use the -Hardlinks option which has been know to choke some big data copies. -eric wood Alan Harding wrote: > Hello Chums I wonder if you could help me with a quick q

Re: Data Migration

2003-07-23 Thread Jonathan M. Slivko
I would be interested in hearing about this as well, but on a much smaller scale. -- Jonathan - Original Message - From: "Alan Harding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Redhat List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 12:43 PM Subject: Data Migration > Hello Chums I wonder if you