Vanhorn, Mike wrote:
On 5/17/17, 12:03 PM, "CentOS on behalf of ken" <centos-bounces@centos.org on behalf of gebser@mousecar.com> wrote:
An entire filesystem (~180g) needs to be copied from one local linux machine to another. Since both systems are on the same local subnet, there's no need for encryption.
I've done this sort of thing before a few times in the past in different ways, but wanted to get input from others on what's worked best for them.
If shutting the machines down is feasible, I’d put the source hard drive into the destination machine and use rsync to copy it from one drive to the other (rather than using rsync to copy from one machine to the other over the network).
Why? I just rsync'd 159G in less than one workday from one server to another. Admittedly, we allegedly have a 1G network, but....
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