[Durham] rsync

[Andrew Glass]

Hi Richard

Thanks for getting back to me.

Im wanting to copy everything to a new hard drive so I can reformat the old one, if you read my subsequent email to this one you will have seen Ive been getting corruption on files that I copied from one drive to another over afp.  I think that was because I had set udp rather than tcp however I could be wrong. Any ideas?

Anyway, Id like to create an lvm group as now have 3 x 1tb drives and id like to create a big pot that I can expand for future use etc.  

Would it therefore be better to create an lvm group on 2 of the 3 1tb drives, then rsync the data from the main drive to that?  Then format and add the final drive to the lvm pot?

Im not sure how to go about it?  Any suggestions?  Im just reading the lvm tutorial on howtoforge at the moment.

Cheers

Andy


On 2 Apr 2012, at 22:45, Richard Patterson wrote:

> rsync can do lots of stuff... even over SSH - I use it to do backups of a couple of servers over SSH...
> 
> If you say exactly what you want to do, I can probably tell you the best way to do it...
> 
> I like LVM it has many possibilities, it can do snapshots, etc... it's only really great if you don't want to allocate your entire drive in one go, or if you think you'll want to add extra drives and expand volumes later...
> 
> Again it's one of those things that you don't realise how powerful it is until you start using it...
> 
> Let me know...
> 
> Regards
> 
> Richard
> 
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> Richard Patterson
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> Sent from my Android Phone
> 
> Andrew Glass <andrewglass3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hey guys :)
> 
> Ive never used rsync before but I think it can accomplish what I require??
> 
> Id like to ssh into my server and copy everything from one drive to a new drive.
> 
> Would this be the best option?  What options would you use to do this?
> 
> I was also considering going lvm with my storage too... Anyone got any good or bad experiences with LVM? Whats your thoughts on it?
> 
> Cheers as always
> 
> Andy
> 
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