Mihai Maties wrote:

On Thursday 13 October 2005 18:04, Shawn M. Jones wrote:

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Due to the increase in space that CentOS is taking up, I've had to split the mirror across two hard drives.

Any suggestions on how I would structure the rsync commands to facilitate this?

You might want to use LVM to avoid splitting the tree. Just create a logical volume from those 2 HDDs (or from the empty space on them).

If you split the mirror tree you'll have a lot of work to do in the future when you'll find out that an entire subtree does not fit on one HDD.

It looks like I don't have much choice. I rent a server from ServerBeach. Whenever I set up a machine myself, I use LVM. Unfortunately, they did not subscribe to that philosophy, and thus I'm stuck with the RHEL 4 default.

At the moment I'm looking into having a 4.2 symlink and putting 4.2 into its own directory on the other disc.

Thanks for the LVM suggestion though. I was just hoping there was another way I could use rsync so that it doesn't destroy the symlink every time it links up. I guess I could run it once for each tree, but then it wouldn't really be a true mirror, now would it? Ergh...

I'm still open to suggestions. :-)

--Shawn