Re: NFS second disk -

2018-06-15 Thread Rick Stevens
On 06/15/2018 02:14 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 06/14/18 17:23, Bob Goodwin wrote: >>> There's always more than one way to do it. >> + >> Yes, and you have probably provided what I was looking for, I'll try >> exporting it as you suggest, probably tomorrow and report back. > + > > I've got this w

Re: NFS second disk -

2018-06-15 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/16/18 05:14, Bob Goodwin wrote: > # rsync -avr /home/exports/ /mnt/test/backups/ > produces copies of directories devoid of files. > > It looks like I have to do: > > # rsync -avr /home/exports/*  /mnt/test/backups/ > > The -r is supposed to get everything recursively but but it did not get t

Re: NFS second disk -

2018-06-15 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 06/14/18 17:23, Bob Goodwin wrote: There's always more than one way to do it. + Yes, and you have probably provided what I was looking for, I'll try exporting it as you suggest, probably tomorrow and report back. + I've got this working except # rsync -avr /home/exports/ /mnt/test/backup

Re: NFS second disk -

2018-06-14 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 06/14/18 17:04, Rick Stevens wrote: # rsync -a /home /media/backups Yes, I was able to do this in the server but I would like to be able to mount the server from this computer and see the resulting backup copy, actually list the files, etc. and have confidence the backup is working. I

Re: NFS second disk -

2018-06-14 Thread Rick Stevens
On 06/14/2018 01:37 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 06/14/18 12:45, Rick Stevens wrote: >> Mount the second drive somewhere on the server and you can do an >> rsync locally to back up files. It appears your /dev/sda thing is >> an LVM drive with one volume group ("fedora") and three volumes ("root", >>

Re: NFS second disk -

2018-06-14 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 06/14/18 12:45, Rick Stevens wrote: Mount the second drive somewhere on the server and you can do an rsync locally to back up files. It appears your /dev/sda thing is an LVM drive with one volume group ("fedora") and three volumes ("root", "home" and "swap"). You appear to be exporting the hom

Re: NFS second disk -

2018-06-14 Thread Rick Stevens
On 06/14/2018 08:07 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > I assembled an NFS server about a month ago and it seems to work > properly, has been in use continuouslysince then ... > > However I installed two 3TB discs and only enabled /dev/sda. I would > like to simply copy data from time to time from /dev/sda t

Re: NFS second disk -

2018-06-14 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 06/14/18 11:41, Michael Watters wrote: LVM can do mirrored volumes if you just want to replicate data from sda to sdb.  You'll need to add sdb to the fedora VG and then update your data volumes to be mirrored. https://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Cluster_Logical_Volume_Manager/LV_create.html#mir

Re: NFS second disk -

2018-06-14 Thread Michael Watters
LVM can do mirrored volumes if you just want to replicate data from sda to sdb.  You'll need to add sdb to the fedora VG and then update your data volumes to be mirrored.  https://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Cluster_Logical_Volume_Manager/LV_create.html#mirror_create has instructions on how to creat

NFS second disk -

2018-06-14 Thread Bob Goodwin
I assembled an NFS server about a month ago and it seems to work properly, has been in use continuouslysince then ... However I installed two 3TB discs and only enabled /dev/sda. I would like to simply copy data from time to time from /dev/sda to /dev/sdb. I cant work out how to accomplish th