Re: rsync or rdist

Herta Van den Eynde wrote:
On 10/03/2008, Rodrick Brown <rbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
tar cvfp - . | ssh -c blowfish remote '(cd /storage/archive; tar xvf - )'


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Subject: Re: rsync or rdist

any one have acript to do the remote transfer ...

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Herta Van den Eynde <
herta.vandeneynde@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 10/03/2008, Mad Unix <madunix@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I need a script transfer archive log files from Production site
Server1 to DR site Server2 on the same subnet
i want to sync the files between /arc with /storage/archive on both
servers ....

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AFAIK, rdist copies entire files. rsync only copies the blocks that are
different.

Note also that you can run rsync through ssh for a more secure transfer.

Kind regards,

Herta

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Looks like a complicated way to do what a simple 'scp -pr source target'
will accomplish. Or am I missing something?

Rodrick does have a point, though: if you simply want to copy new files from
server A to server B, a simple copy will be faster than rsync, as you don't
need the comparison phase. But scp will be faster than the tar - transfer -
untar.

Kind regards,

Herta


well if scp inherits the same limitation of rcp -r then it wont take links with it.
tar picks up all links, but does not follow them.

I would always use a variation of the tar command given above for complete directory copies, from one system to another, however would add the "B" modifier to the example given above to ensure that tar Blocks for pipes/network.

However rsync would be a much better option if say a DR host needs to be kept in sync with a production, as rsync can be configured to to incremental updates, ie only copy changes, and where files are deleted on the source delete them at the dest, maintaining a complete mirror of two directories across a network.
it could be cron's to run every few mins.

regards peter

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