Re: replicating backup servers offsite

On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 22:31, Craig Barratt wrote:

> Actually, rsync by default doesn't open any non-regular
> files, so this would not work.  But with a few changes
> to rsync you should be able to do efficient incremental
> updates of raw disk devices.

You would have to keep the partitions unmounted during the
sync operation which might take a long time over the
remote link.  Maybe it could be done with an LVM snapshot
as the source.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx




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