On 16 Apr, Neil Bothwick wrote: > 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.
I don't think it copies hard links, as well. Therefore I prefer the additional option -H Furthermore I add the -u option for not overriding files on the destination which are newer. Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany
