[CentOS] Initial backup prior to daily rsync backups

2009-07-16 Thread Jeff Gregor
I have a few CentOS 5.3 servers out at remote sites that connect over a satellite link (a painfully slow satellite link). There's a time period in the wee hours of the morning when the satellite provider doesn't stiff me for bandwidth, and when the link is generally idle, where I want to use rs

Re: [CentOS] Initial backup prior to daily rsync backups

2009-07-16 Thread Jeff Gregor
> F: (416) 595-9122 > E: dav...@mrxfx.com > > > - Original Message - > From: "Jeff Gregor" > To: centos@centos.org > Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 10:52:46 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: [CentOS] Initial backup prior to daily rsync backups &

[CentOS] Software RAID-1 partition constantly syncing

2009-07-29 Thread Jeff Gregor
I have a partition set up as software RAID-1 on a CentOS 5.3 machine. Today, the system was rebooted, when it came back up I noticed that it had started to resync. It completes the sync, then immediately starts again. From the log: Jul 29 09:46:02 cbserver kernel: md: syncing RAID array md2 Jul