Vanhorn, Mike wrote: > On 5/17/17, 12:03 PM, "CentOS on behalf of ken" <centos-bounces at centos.org > on behalf of gebser at 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.... mark