First Time Using Rsync

[Matthias Schniedermeyer]

On 24.07.2010 06:29, Alex Ferrara wrote:
> 
> 
> On 23/07/2010, at 10:42 PM, Carlos Mennens <carlos.mennens at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I did a search on the web and there are so many different methods /
> > variations of using this powerful tool. My question for you guys is
> > very simple and I would like to hear from people on the list who use
> > this daily what the best command would be to transfer all data from
> > one server (srv_old) to my newly build server (srv_new)?
> > 
> > I have one directory "/home" which contains everyone's mailbox & email
> > which I want to rsync from 'srv_old' to 'srv_new'. I am just looking
> > for the fastest and most secure method of doing something like this:
> > 
> > rsync -avz ssh /home/ root at srv_new:/home
> > 
> > Thanks for any help!
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> The short answer is
> 
> rsync -avz /home/ root at srv_new:/home/
...


And, if not already done, you should sync /etc/password (and /etc/group) 
before you do the rsync, otherwise rsync can't match the owners/groups. 
(See long description of "--owner" in the man-page)

But another run after fixing that is also no problem, rsync will then 
fix the meta-data. Or, if you are sure the (U/G)IDs will be the same at 
some point in the future, you can run rsync with "--numeric-ids".




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