From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 5 13:04:35 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73CCE16A4BF for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:04:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pgh.nepinc.com (pgh.nepinc.com [66.207.129.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22A314400D for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:04:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from durham@jcdurham.com) Received: from jimslaptop.pitt.nepinc.com (jimslaptop.pitt.nepinc.com [192.100.100.107]) (authenticated) by pgh.nepinc.com (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id h85K4O633055; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 16:04:24 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from durham@jcdurham.com) From: Jim Durham Organization: JC Durham Consulting To: Malcolm Kay Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 16:04:21 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <1062511023.4165.5.camel@cronos.home.vsb> <200309030129.27754.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <200309030129.27754.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309051604.21653.durham@jcdurham.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rsync problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: durham@jcdurham.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 20:04:35 -0000 On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:59 am, Malcolm Kay wrote: > On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 23:27, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > > Hello > > > > I'm using rsync to sort of mirror two 40GB disks (once a day). > > All partitions work as expected, but root is weird (and as you > > can see below, I sort of made it too small). > > > > I use this command: > > /usr/local/bin/rsync -ax --delete / /mirror/rootfs > > > > But this is what I'm getting: > > df -m > > Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > > /dev/ad0s1a 154 71 70 51% / > > /dev/ad1s1a 154 138 4 97% /mirror/rootfs > > > > So, there's a 67 MB difference between both. > > I started out wite a cleanly formatted mirror (UFS2) > > > > My system is FreeBSD 5.0 RELEASE-p11 > > > > Thanks for any help > > > > Guy > > I expect rsync does not recognise hard linked files as such and > makes separate images of each directory link. Looking through > /stand on my 4.8 system I see that this would create about 60Mb > extra. > > You might do better with dump and restore: > # cd /miiror/rootfs > # dump -0 -a -f - / | restore -r -f - > > Malcolm > rsync -H preserves hard links. Maybe try rsync -Hax --delete ? -Jim