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RSync Question
I'm looking to migrate a bunch of stuff from one server to another - and I think rSync will be my best bet based upon what I'm reading.
A couple of questions before I proceed with it though:
1: Does rSync need to be installed on both servers due to the compression? Or - is it fine if I just install it on the destination server and use that to fetch from the original server? Kind of like:
rsync -avzhe ssh root@xxx.xxx.x.xxx:/var/ww
Does that seem like a decent command to use - that will just grab everything in that directory/file permissions/etc?
2: Does rSync run in the background once it's launched from SSH - or do I need to keep the SSH terminal alive during the transfer? I've used ncftp for stuff like this in the past - and there's a special flag you need to set to keep it running in the background. Is rSync similar - or will it just go once you've set it going and I can close the terminal window? There's about 3TB of data I'm transferring - and I'd hate to worry about keeping the connection alive the whole transfer.
Thanks!
A couple of questions before I proceed with it though:
1: Does rSync need to be installed on both servers due to the compression? Or - is it fine if I just install it on the destination server and use that to fetch from the original server? Kind of like:
rsync -avzhe ssh root@xxx.xxx.x.xxx:/var/ww
Does that seem like a decent command to use - that will just grab everything in that directory/file permissions/etc?
2: Does rSync run in the background once it's launched from SSH - or do I need to keep the SSH terminal alive during the transfer? I've used ncftp for stuff like this in the past - and there's a special flag you need to set to keep it running in the background. Is rSync similar - or will it just go once you've set it going and I can close the terminal window? There's about 3TB of data I'm transferring - and I'd hate to worry about keeping the connection alive the whole transfer.
Thanks!
ASKER
So does my example command look decent to you then - just a plain :
rsync -avzhe ssh root@xxx.xxx.x.xxx:/var/ww
(with an ampersand at the end?)
Will that copy everything from the www directory and place it in the /localdestination/ directory...or will it place a www directory inside of /localdestination/ as well?
rsync -avzhe ssh root@xxx.xxx.x.xxx:/var/ww
(with an ampersand at the end?)
Will that copy everything from the www directory and place it in the /localdestination/ directory...or will it place a www directory inside of /localdestination/ as well?
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Gracias
You can add a space and "&" to the end to send it to the background. If you are calling a script via cron, I've never had to do that. I only add & when I want to sent a CLI Rsync to the background.