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Date:      Wed, 3 Sep 2003 01:29:27 +0930
From:      Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
To:        Guy Van Sanden <n.b@myrealbox.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: rsync problem
Message-ID:  <200309030129.27754.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
In-Reply-To: <1062511023.4165.5.camel@cronos.home.vsb>
References:  <1062511023.4165.5.camel@cronos.home.vsb>

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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=20
separate images of each directory link. Looking through /stand on my 4.8=20
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






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