rsync to iSCSI over WAN

2010-07-23 Thread Tom Christensen
I am running rsync in cygwin on windows. I am attempting to backup a somewhat large data store (750GB) to a remote site. As its windows and preserving permissions exactly is important, I have an iSCSI drive mounted on the local system across a somewhat slow WAN link (IE, it would take about

Re: rsync to iSCSI over WAN

2010-07-23 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, Tom Christensen wrote: I am running rsync in cygwin on windows. I am attempting to backup a somewhat large data store (750GB) to a remote site. As its windows and preserving permissions exactly is important, I have an iSCSI drive mounted on the local system across a

Re: rsync to iSCSI over WAN

2010-07-23 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, Tom Christensen wrote: I am running rsync in cygwin on windows. I am attempting to backup a somewhat large data store (750GB) to a remote site. As its windows and preserving permissions exactly is important, I have an

RE: rsync to iSCSI over WAN

2010-07-23 Thread Tom Christensen
Wow... I don't know how many times I read through the man file... sorry I missed that... Thanks, Tom Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:32:51 -0400 From: rs...@benizi.com To: pav...@live.com CC: rsync@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: rsync to iSCSI over WAN On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, Benjamin R. Haskell

Re: rsync to iSCSI over WAN

2010-07-23 Thread Matthias Schniedermeyer
On 23.07.2010 00:30, Tom Christensen wrote: I am running rsync in cygwin on windows. I am attempting to backup a somewhat large data store (750GB) to a remote site. As its windows and preserving permissions exactly is important, I have an iSCSI drive mounted on the local system across a

First Time Using Rsync

2010-07-23 Thread Carlos Mennens
I did a search on the web and there are so many different methods / variations of using this powerful tool. My question for you guys is very simple and I would like to hear from people on the list who use this daily what the best command would be to transfer all data from one server (srv_old) to

RE: rsync to iSCSI over WAN

2010-07-23 Thread Tom Christensen
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:02:26 +0200 From: m...@citd.de To: pav...@live.com CC: rsync@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: rsync to iSCSI over WAN On 23.07.2010 00:30, Tom Christensen wrote: I am running rsync in cygwin on windows. I am attempting to backup a somewhat large data store

Re: rsync to iSCSI over WAN

2010-07-23 Thread Matthias Schniedermeyer
On 23.07.2010 10:29, Tom Christensen wrote: Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:02:26 +0200 From: m...@citd.de To: pav...@live.com CC: rsync@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: rsync to iSCSI over WAN On 23.07.2010 00:30, Tom Christensen wrote: I am running rsync in cygwin on windows.

Re: First Time Using Rsync

2010-07-23 Thread Alex Ferrara
On 23/07/2010, at 10:42 PM, Carlos Mennens carlos.menn...@gmail.com wrote: I did a search on the web and there are so many different methods / variations of using this powerful tool. My question for you guys is very simple and I would like to hear from people on the list who use this daily

Re: First Time Using Rsync

2010-07-23 Thread Jeff Cleverley
Carlos, I didn't see what environment you are doing this in. If it is a unix environment you may also want to include the -H option. This preserves hard links. Some applications use these quite a bit. This most likely would not be an issue for home directories. Jeff On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at

Re: First Time Using Rsync

2010-07-23 Thread Matthias Schniedermeyer
On 24.07.2010 06:29, Alex Ferrara wrote: On 23/07/2010, at 10:42 PM, Carlos Mennens carlos.menn...@gmail.com wrote: I did a search on the web and there are so many different methods / variations of using this powerful tool. My question for you guys is very simple and I would like to