something better then rsync for duplicating systems ... ?

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 6:46 PM -0400 3/30/06, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>I have two servers, one of them a backup of the other ...
>right now, I'm using rsync to do it, but since rsync
>has to traverse both servers file systems to do its
>comparison, it puts a good load on the system, and
>takes awhile to run ...

You could reduce that overhead by running rsync multiple
times, each run doing a different subset of the total
filesystem.  (not that this is a great solution, but I
did this when setting up a similar arrangement some time
ago, and splitting up the amount done by any single rsync
did seem to help)

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