On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:30:04 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > I would like to back up a mounted RAID0 to a mounted RAID1.
The RAID makes no difference, because rsync works at the filesystem level. > Would the following command be appropriate to backup /virdata on > RAID0 to /backups on RAID1? > > rsync -avx /virdata/. /backups/. Yes, although the use of -v makes it harder to see any errors that may occur. > It appears that maybe the -a option wouldn't copy the links? It does. > Also, how does rsync handle the backup if the RAID0 directory is > active and changing? Will it keep working until there are no > differences? Or does it read once and copy? It reads once, and will generally produce an error if a file has changed between scanning and copying. Running rsync repeatedly until it returns a 0 status may be worth considering. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 10: Computer security
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