[Cialug] Moving Linux from one disk to another

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

I love rsync. I use it for backups on my home network by rsync'ing 
machines to a file server. I was a bit surprised to see it recommended 
for copying from one disk to another though. In my experience, rsync is 
wonderful for synchronizing large file sets where not much has changed. 
But for an initial copy it is very slow. I haven't objectively 
benchmarked it recently, but it seems to take about twice as long as 
tar or cp. Usually when adding a new machine to an rsync backup plan i 
do the initial file copy using tar piped through an ssh connection, and 
then use rsync for subsequent updates.

On Friday September 5 2008 09:52, David Champion wrote:
>I was with Paul... until he said he hates rsync. The only thing I hate
>about rysnc is most windows admins don't know what it is, so I can't
>rsync to their servers.
>
>-dc

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