There are a number of ways of doing this. The biggest problem you are going to have is preserving file permissions and ownership.
If I have command line access I prefer to use rsync+ssh, something like: rsync -t -ruzP --delete --inplace --rsh="ssh -c blowfish -i /path/to/ssh/key" source_dir remoteuser@remotehost:/remotepath I have never used a netapp so this may not be possible. I also have not used FreeNAS in years though I would expect it to still have rsync and ssh support. You might be able to mount the On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Jon Copeland <copela...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey all, > > Long time lurker here and finally in a career where I'll be using Linux more > frequently so I'll be happy to be contributing to Clug more often. > Does anybody have any ideas surrounding how to use rsync to copy data from > one NAS to another? > I'm going to be moving about 600GB of data from an old Netapp Storevault and > onto a fresh Freenas 8.0 VM for one of my clients and I'd like to do this as > gracefully as possible. > > Cheers > > -j- > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
