2009/8/11 Brett Worth <br...@worth.id.au>: > Ming Gao wrote: >> And any other thing I could do to reduce the risk? > > Once you get all the file copied over by whatever means then a final rsync > would be good > to get all the metadata lined up. Based on your file count I'd strongly > recommend you > break up the filesystem into smaller problems. > Speaking of metadata tar should have an option to preserve these, and unlike rsync it tends to preserve file names as well. When I tried to copy a directory with rsync last time there was some file name transcoding feature that would clobber the file names in interesting ways. I did not manage to turn it off completely so it would always clobber file names which had invalid code sequences in the encoding in use. I would not assume that 180M files are all correctly named in the same encoding.
This is one more problem to consider. HTH Michal -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
