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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