Re: Limit consumption of space on destination?

2002-02-02 Thread Anonymous
Dirk, > You don't like partitions ... OK ! Have a look at LVM (Logical Volume > Management). With LVM you are able to resize a Logical Volume without > backup and restore. LVM and Howto are available at > http://www.sistina.com/lvm . > One big partition is rather unflexible. So I recommend using

Re: Limit consumption of space on destination?

2002-02-02 Thread Dirk Markwardt
Hi ! > I realize I could accomplish this by creating a partition on the > destination disk, but I don't like partitions because changing them > means taking down a production server and reformatting the drive. I > took a look at quotas, which seem to fit the bill more closely, but > either the d

Limit consumption of space on destination?

2002-02-02 Thread Anonymous
I've just started using rsync, and it's way cool. I checked the FAQ, the broken mailing list archive search function, and scanned the archives, but didn't see this mentioned. I presume it's a fairly common need: I'm mirroring files automatically and daily from one site to another, and anticipat