[ale] rsyncing *large* drives

[James S. Cochrane]

I've had problems with rsync and large binary files, particularly fifo 
files, on HP-UX.  Never tried it on any other platforms with large files, 
although we use it to keep our jumpstart servers in sync.

James

At 01:49 PM 4/14/03 -0400, you wrote:
>Then, I hope you have a fast connection.
>
>At onetime a company that I worked for was doing backups.  The backups
>began at night and over time were taking longer and longer.  Soon, they
>took so long that we have to redesign a backup strategy.  We could not
>have the backup running well into the workday.
>
>I rsync works wonders on text files.  I'm not sure how well it behaves
>with binary files.  I use it mostly for text.
>
>
>On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 13:35, John Wells wrote:
> > Yup...if the mirrored box wasn't in a different state ;-)
> >
> > Christopher Fowler said:
> > > 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.
> > >
> >
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