On Tue, 2009-08-11 10:58:15 +0200, Michal Suchanek <hramr...@centrum.cz> wrote: > 2009/8/11 Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbg...@lug-owl.de>: > > On Tue, 2009-08-11 16:14:33 +0800, Ming Gao <gaomin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I need to migrate 40T data and 180M files from one storage device to > > > another > > > one, both source and destination will be NFS and mounted to a local suse > > > linux box. > > > > There are no specific risks these days I think, but it sounds like > > this is a task like "copy over anything", so it's merely mount both > > filesystems and use two `tar' instances with a pipe in between... > > > > .. except it will take forever and is not restartable.
In a copy-once scenario, you can only saturate your bandwidth once.
Rsync cannot really make it faster.
> I'm not sure that the possibility to restart the rsync run after, say,
> a network outage is really an advantage, though. Finding out what's
> already transferred and transferring the rest takes about the same
> time as doing a full transfer.
That's indeed the question. Rsync is a really good program to
synchronize files, but it's not a /better/ backup program. (Though it
is as good as others.)
MfG, JBG
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Signature of: 23:53 <@jbglaw> So, ich kletter' jetzt mal ins Bett.
the second : 23:57 <@jever2> .oO( kletter ..., hat er noch Gitter vorm Bett,
wie früher meine Kinder?)
00:00 <@jbglaw> jever2: *patsch*
00:01 <@jever2> *aua*, wofür, Gedanken sind frei!
00:02 <@jbglaw> Nee, freie Gedanken, die sind seit 1984 doch aus!
00:03 <@jever2> 1984? ich bin erst seit 1985 verheiratet!
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