[SGVLUG] Moving files in a safe way

[Matt Campbell]

Thanks Rae,

The speed difference was what I was fishing for.

The incantation you provided below apparently didn't contain some
information I needed.  The following didn't work, where did I go wrong?

matt at scar:25% find /media/Media -depth | cpio -oH odc | ssh -e none
matt at mufasa cpio -idmv /media/Media matt at mufasa's password:
cpio: Media/NinjaNonsense/English/Ninin English 10.mov: file width not
sufficient for storing file size
cpio: premature end of file

Could it be that the file was over a Gig in size?

Here is a report from the Debian bugs list on Aug '08:

"This is dreadful. cpio is passing over backup files and omitting large and
important files. Please raise to critical."
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=495962

But I'm running Fedora 10... that makes it all ok right?

Matt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sgvlug-bounces at sgvlug.net [mailto:sgvlug-bounces at sgvlug.net] On
> Behalf Of Rae Yip
> Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 7:30 PM
> To: SGVLUG Discussion List.
> Subject: Re: [SGVLUG] Moving files in a safe way
> 
> If it's a one-time operation, I'd be inclined to use cpio over ssh.
> 
> cd /src; find . -depth | cpio -oH odc | ssh -e none user at host cpio -
> idmv /tgt
> 
> Feel free to compare the times for this to rdist. :)
> 
> -Rae.
> 
> P.S. Not sure if Linux cpio or rdist will preserve ACLs or security
> contexts. Assuming this isn't a big deal.
> 
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Matt Campbell <dvdmatt at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I have a quick question.
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> > I have 6 TB of data I want to move between 2 arrays across a 1000T
> network.
> > What is the best transport mechanism to use to ensure a good copy?
> Is rdist
> > over ssh a reasonable solution?
> >
> > Matt
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