On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Murthy Kambhampaty wrote:
> This question probably deserves more analysis than any of us is capable of
> but if "one-way replication" fulfills my application's needs, and perhaps
> Vincent's, then is copying an LVM snapshot of an XFS filesystem to an XFS
> partition on the "secondary" server a sufficient solution. Is it possible to
> script a cron job which: (a) mounts a snapshot, (b) tar's/untars the
> snapshot over using NFS/SMBmnt, (c) unmounts the snapshot. I haven't tried
> it yet becuase (i)I'm having other problems I want to solve first, and (ii)
> every time I get optimistic about its prospects, I see problems cropping up
> with LVM snapshots of XFS volumes.
Seems like a job for rsync. I think this hould do what you want instead
of the tar/untar.
Cheers
Seth
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