Mirroring a server
Carl Flippin
carlf at uia.net
Tue Mar 5 13:05:47 EST 2002
That may well be. I'll have another go tonight and let it run overnight. Thanks
for the advice.
On Mon, 4 Mar 2002 20:50:33 -0500 (EST)
Tom Diehl <tdiehl at rogueind.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Carl Flippin wrote:
>
> >
> > I'm trying to use rsync to mirror an entire FreeBSD 4.5 server. This includes the
> > kernel and quite a few other system level files. As one might expect, rsync hangs
> > when it tries to copy the kernel file. Has anyone had success with this kind of
> > setup?
>
> Are you REALLY sure it is hung?? I rsync the bulk of the Red Hat site
> every 6 hours. This is also what I used for the initial whack and it
> worked flawlessly. It can look hung but in my experience it is just
> working it's magic.
>
> Also FWIW I also do a partial of kernel.org (the 2.2 and 2.4 tree + people)
> so I am doing kernel updates every night.
>
> here is my command line:
> # rsync -avH --partial --delete --delete-excluded --exclude-from=$EXCLUDE_FILE \
> path_to_source_tree/ destination.
>
> HTH,
>
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