Moving /home to a LVM

Madan Thapa madan.feedback at gmail.com
Tue Dec 25 15:21:24 UTC 2007


I does incremental backups.. look at man rsync

On 12/24/07, Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu at orgfarm.uu.se> wrote:
>
> Ah, sound a bit like robocopy for windows, although that one doesn't do
> incremental backups as far as I know.
>
> Thx for the info.
>
> ________________________________
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> From: Madan Thapa [mailto:madan.feedback at gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2007 10:36 AM
> To: sorin.srbu at orgfarm.uu.se; General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: Moving /home to a LVM
>
>
> rsync actually in useful in creating incremental backups, locally or over
> network. rysnc also can work like a copy function as I updated you on the
> last
> post. I will look for any files changed during a period and if there is
> any
> will update it with files from the source to the destination. cp seems add
> server load which copying a large directory, however rsync does it with
> hardly
> any load.
>
>
>
> On Dec 23, 2007 2:18 AM, Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu at orgfarm.uu.se> wrote:
>
>
>        Madan Thapa <> scribbled on Saturday, December 22, 2007 2:17 AM:
>
>        What advantage would that be? Just curious...
>
>
>
>        > you may actually use rsync instead of copy
>        >
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>        >
>        > rsync -vrplogDtH /<old_home_paht> /home
>        >
>        >
>        >
>        >
>        > On 12/20/07, Joey Prestia < joey at linuxamd.com
> <mailto:joey at linuxamd.com> > wrote:
>        >>
>        >> Thanks for the fast reply tried it this morning and I had
> specified
> the
>        >> copy incorrectly so it took a little mv here and there but its
> working
>        >> great Thanks all.
>        >>
>        >> Joey
>
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