From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nyl1z-0000Oj-1a for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 12:03:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2177CE0B35 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 12:03:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DD4EE09A9 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 11:10:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (grunthos.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E107C4A1144 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 12:10:48 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 12:10:42 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Moving the system from one disk to another Message-ID: <20100405121042.614baeab@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <201004051201.30038.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <20100404190523.GI5229@solfire> <20100405080351.5eefd62e@digimed.co.uk> <201004051201.30038.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.5cvs43 (GTK+ 2.18.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/nQ8B84piEe+/wRzDmOCvhZ1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: cf92a387-e245-42b7-b192-b7aed9dc627d X-Archives-Hash: 0faa3d4013aa260241c89432d0e93a67 --Sig_/nQ8B84piEe+/wRzDmOCvhZ1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 12:01:28 +0100, Mick wrote: > > You can also substantially reduce downtime by first rsyncing while the > > system is running (using either -x or bind mounts). That will give a > > slightly inconsistent root, so you then repeat the process from a > > live CD (using --delete with rsync) to clean things up. The latter > > rsync takes a fraction of the time as 99.*% of the data is already > > cpied. =20 >=20 > I don't know how slow rsync is the first time you run it. Since no one > has yet suggested it star may be faster, while tar would do it nicely > like so: The speed is about the same. It's slow the first time because you have to copy several gigabytes of data, whichever method you use. The advantage of rsync is that you can do this while the system is still running then do a quick update while booted from the live CD, massively reducing downtime. --=20 Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 24: New classic --Sig_/nQ8B84piEe+/wRzDmOCvhZ1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAku5xTcACgkQum4al0N1GQPc5gCfXzSDe+iVkM5GCpl+UO4yjvSB zPEAoNewL9pSlEsRH84j1zLXntyWV+Wm =UhXv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/nQ8B84piEe+/wRzDmOCvhZ1--