Re: [gentoo-amd64] Quick rsync backup before changing a RAID

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Panagiotis Christopoulos
<pxrist@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> ...
>
>     I'm wondering whether -avx is what others would use or whether
>>
>> there's a better set of options.
>>
>>    When the RAID comes back up I want to reverse and copy back from
>> USB drive to the /VirtualMachines directory.
>>
> Add --progress to track progress while copying. Also, be careful what
> filesystem the USB drive will have (better to use what you're already
> using), in order to preserve permissions correctly etc.
>
> Panagiotis

Hi Panagiotis,
   Good point about the file system type. Both are ext3 so no problems
expected, although on restore I suspect it will end up ext4.

Cheers,
Mark