Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 14:03:01 +0930 From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: durham@jcdurham.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rsync problem Message-ID: <200309061403.01362.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <200309051604.21653.durham@jcdurham.com> References: <1062511023.4165.5.camel@cronos.home.vsb> <200309030129.27754.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> <200309051604.21653.durham@jcdurham.com>
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On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 05:34, Jim Durham wrote: > 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 Certainly a more convenient approach than my suggestion. I should have thought to take a look at the man page ;-) Thanks Malcolm
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