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Date:      Thu, 30 Mar 2006 19:29:50 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: something better then rsync for duplicating systems ... ?
Message-ID:  <p0623092ac0522760d287@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <20060330184315.F947@ganymede.hub.org>
References:  <20060330184315.F947@ganymede.hub.org>

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At 6:46 PM -0400 3/30/06, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>I have two servers, one of them a backup of the other ...
>right now, I'm using rsync to do it, but since rsync
>has to traverse both servers file systems to do its
>comparison, it puts a good load on the system, and
>takes awhile to run ...

You could reduce that overhead by running rsync multiple
times, each run doing a different subset of the total
filesystem.  (not that this is a great solution, but I
did this when setting up a similar arrangement some time
ago, and splitting up the amount done by any single rsync
did seem to help)

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu



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