Re: rsync a raw device

2006-03-16 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 04:27:08PM -0500, Matt McCutchen wrote: > On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 17:42 -0500, Dan Pritts wrote: > > is there some magic flag i'm missing that will allow me to rsync > > a raw device? Not the dev entry, but the device itself? > > I don't know

Re: rsync a raw device

2006-03-16 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 17:42 -0500, Dan Pritts wrote: > is there some magic flag i'm missing that will allow me to rsync > a raw device? Not the dev entry, but the device itself? I don't know of any such flag, but it would be easy to add one. There's a nice analogy betwee

Re: rsync a raw device

2006-03-14 Thread Dan Pritts
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 11:22:32AM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > On Mon, 2006-03-13 17:42:18 -0500, Dan Pritts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd like to mirror this data store to a remote location for DR purposes. > > ideally the target would be a raw device as well, but a loopback mount > > w

Re: rsync a raw device

2006-03-14 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Mon, 2006-03-13 17:42:18 -0500, Dan Pritts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to mirror this data store to a remote location for DR purposes. > ideally the target would be a raw device as well, but a loopback mount > would probably solve my problem if that's not possible. # cat /dev/sda | ss

rsync a raw device

2006-03-13 Thread Dan Pritts
Hi all - is there some magic flag i'm missing that will allow me to rsync a raw device? Not the dev entry, but the device itself? I have a filesystem (backuppc data store) that does not respond well to directory traversal due to an extremely high number of hard links (which generate lo