Rsync seems to be the obvious answer here. On 17 May 2017 at 18:16, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote: > > > On 05/17/2017 12:03 PM, ken 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. >> >> One consideration is that the source filesystem contains quite a few >> hardlinks and symlinks and of course I want to preserve these, and preserve >> all timestamps and ownerships and permissions as well. Maintaining the >> integrity of this metadata and the integrity of the files themselves if of >> course the top priority. >> >> Speed is also a consideration, but having done this before, I find it >> even more important to have a running progress report or log so I can see >> how the session is proceeding and approximately how much longer it will be >> until finished... and too to see if something's hung up. >> >> One other consideration: There isn't much disk space left on the source >> machine, so creating a tar file, even compressed, isn't an option. >> >> What relevant methods have you been impressed by? >> > > I use rsync for such work. It is good at maintaining hard and sym links > and timestamps. It can give you a running progress as well. > > One thing I have learned is that crud happens and I loose my local session > for some stupid reason or another, thus I often run rsync in a screen shell > that I can easily reconnect to. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >