<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Simple... :) Just rsync to the external drive, then rsync from the drive to your local server. :)<br><br>--<br>David Fix<br>Senior Systems Administrator<br>Mr. X Inc.<br>35 McCaul Street, Ste. #100<br>Toronto, ON M5T 1V7<br>T: (416) 595-6222, x 241<br>F: (416) 595-9122<br>E: davidf@mrxfx.com<br><br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Jeff Gregor" <cpbecket@berkshire.net><br>To: centos@centos.org<br>Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 10:52:46 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern<br>Subject: [CentOS] Initial backup prior to daily rsync backups<br><br>I have a few CentOS 5.3 servers out at remote sites that connect over a <br>satellite link (a painfully slow satellite link). There's a time period <br>in the wee hours of the morning when the satellite provider doesn't <br>stiff me for bandwidth, and when the link is generally idle, where I <br>want to use rsync to back up files to my local server. I've got rsync <br>working in in combination with cron and ssh, and that process works fine.<br><br>The problem is getting the initial copy of the files over to the local <br>server so that rsync can just deal with files changed during the day <br>(there tend to not be too many changes -- mostly office-type documents, <br>few pictures, that sort of thing, so limited bandwidth is not a <br>problem). If I run rsync now, however, it is trying to copy over all the <br>files since none exist on the local servers, and by my calculations <br>copying that 160gb worth of data should be done some time in <br>mid-February, 2010.<br><br>I can make the 4-hour round trip out to the remote site with a USB hard <br>drive and copy the files that way, but my concern is how to get the file <br>structure, timestamps, permissions, etc copied exactly from the remote <br>server > USB drive > local server so that rsync can run most efficiently <br>(and not have to do a compare on every single file the first time it runs.)<br><br>So the question is, how do I copy the files from the remote server back <br>to my local server in a way that will allow rsync, once the copy is <br>complete, to start dealing just with the daily changes in the most <br>efficient way possible?<br><br>Thanks!<br>_______________________________________________<br>CentOS mailing list<br>CentOS@centos.org<br>http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos<br></div></body></html>