brian,
there are many
solutions
if you like ssh and rsync etc,
then...
taking this solution and modify it a
little and it works great
one, you can backup the machine(s) to
another system with large space
two, once machine(s) backed up, then you
can mod the script to do proper excludes and then rsync the remote 5.6 to the
local 5.6
again, proper use of excludes in the
script is necessary and then when getting ready to do final pull, you have to
modify the local space to write to so it doesnt go into a backup directory, but
to where it need to go on the new server
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rh