On 11 Nov 2002, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Note that in large-scale data moves, like this, where you're reluctant > to take the system offline: if you can put the new storage online > (connected either to the same or a different server) you run the copy > process while the data is still online, then when you close for the > migration you can do an incremental update (rsync -aHS --delete is > good for this; if you want to be extra paranoid at the expense of > significantly slower execution rsync -acHS --delete.) This is > typically a lot quicker than copying all the data once offline. This is exactly what I meant, sorry if I implied otherwise. -- Derek Vadala, derek@cynicism.com, http://www.cynicism.com/~derek - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
