[ale] rsyncing *large* drives

[Christopher Fowler]

Would placing a private NIC on both machines with a x-over cable help? 
Keeps the load down and makes the x-over cable only carry rsync data.


On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 13:14, Denny Chambers wrote:
> I use it to sync a 100+ GB SW Raid machine to another machine. I only 
> have about 47 GB used. I can't say I have any commplaints about how it 
> works.
> 
> Denny
> 
> John Wells wrote:
> 
> >We have a need to mirror an entire 80 GB harddrive on a nightly basis. 
> >rsync would seem ideal for this sort of thing, but I've never used it for
> >syncs over a gigabyte and am concerned that the large size of the drive
> >might give it's comparison routines a headache, particularly if that 80GB
> >consists for the most part of small files.
> >
> >Anyone used rsync in this type of situation?  If not, do you have any
> >suggestions?
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
> >John
> >
> >
> >
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