What I'd do.

Post #175,896 by folkert 9/23/04 10:45:46 AM 9/23/04 10:48:01 AM Reply	What I'd do. Use an rsync daemon and make the request on the new machine. And have it verify as well. That way, you'd be sure to get it right. Not that I don't trust tar or cpio (I turst them for nightly backups period). Just that doing the tar etc unles done to a network pipe to the other machine... mean you gotta have THAT much more space on both machines. rsync, you only need a few extra MB. A better option might be: If this is HP-UX you could also setup NFS export on the source machine and nfs mount the file system on the destination machine then just do a local rsync as well. Oh... and if you have ssh on both machine (full suite that is) you could scp them as well. Or if you actually have rsh and rcp available on the machines you could just do them the old fashioned rcp method as well. -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* No matter how much Microsoft supporters whine about how Linux and other operating systems have just as many bugs as their operating systems do, the bottom line is that the serious, gut-wrenching problems happen on Windows, not on Linux, not on Mac OS. -- [link\|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622086,00.asp\|source] Here is an example: [link\|http://www.greymagic.com/security/advisories/gm001-ie/\|Executing arbitrary commands without Active Scripting or ActiveX when using Windows] Edited by folkert Sept. 23, 2004, 10:48:01 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #175,899 by deSitter 9/23/04 10:50:13 AM Reply	Re: What I'd do. I heard rsync blows chunks performance-wise since it's read-file/write-file one at a time. Just checked, not an option in any case (on this system). I have sudo but must be judicious. Installing rsync might get me escorted out. (Hell, viewing IWETHEY might get me escorted out.) -drl
Post #175,905 by ben_tilly 9/23/04 11:05:45 AM Reply	Nope rsync handles multiple files at a time and is very fast as long as you turn the right options on and off. This can take research to figure out. For instance I usually don't use -a because that implies -I, which causes it to expensively do an MD5 on every single file. I'm happy knowing that the files have the same size and modification time even though theoretically that could be wrong. rsync is also clearly The Right solution if you're going to have to resynchronize the data. However when I sit down with it I always need a while to figure out what exact combination of flags I really want to use this time. Cheers, Ben About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra

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