Hello, I am building another backup server. I want to copy the data to be able to have a perfect copy on both server. If i tar the folder (that i want to sync) on my current computer and i move it to the new one and untar it. When i will sync it first, will he download again the data ? The amount of data is pretty huge (50 Go) ? If yes do you have any other plan ? Thanks for you enlightenment Franck -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed
No one ???? On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 11:06 PM, Franck Y <franck110@gmail.com> wrote:> Hello, > I am building another backup server. > I want to copy the data to be able to have a perfect copy on both server. > > If i tar the folder (that i want to sync) on my current computer and i move > it to the new one and untar it. > When i will sync it first, will he download again the data ? The amount of > data is pretty huge (50 Go) ? > > If yes do you have any other plan ? > > Thanks for you enlightenment > > > Franck >-- Franck -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed
On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 23:06 -0400, Franck Y wrote:> I am building another backup server. > I want to copy the data to be able to have a perfect copy on both > server. > > If i tar the folder (that i want to sync) on my current computer and i > move it to the new one and untar it. > When i will sync it first, will he download again the data ?No. tar preserves mtimes of files by default, and as the second paragraph of the rsync man page says, rsync decides which files need a transfer based on mismatches in size and mtime. Matt
That is basically what I do when setting up a new client for remote backups. I copy their data to an external drive of some sort, then to the destination server. Then remote backups will keep things updated from there. _____ From: rsync-bounces+brad.farrell=shaw.ca@lists.samba.org [mailto:rsync-bounces+brad.farrell=shaw.ca@lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Franck Y Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 5:37 PM To: rsync@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: Strategy No one ???? On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 11:06 PM, Franck Y <franck110@gmail.com> wrote: Hello, I am building another backup server. I want to copy the data to be able to have a perfect copy on both server. If i tar the folder (that i want to sync) on my current computer and i move it to the new one and untar it. When i will sync it first, will he download again the data ? The amount of data is pretty huge (50 Go) ? If yes do you have any other plan ? Thanks for you enlightenment Franck -- Franck -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed