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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