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Date:	Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:54:07 -0800
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: 4OS2

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Steven Levine wrote:
>
> Peter Skye said:
>
> >Same problem here with high number of files, even when copying
> >HPFS-to-HPFS.
>
> When you say slow, have you calculated the transfer rate?

Yeah: f(x) = concatenate( "real", " ", "slow")

> dSync is handy. There's also rSync which works over TCP/IP connections so
> it's good for remote backups. The downside is that Pauld's build does not
> yet support extended attributes

I'm ooking forward to this - where do I look (didn't see it on Hobbes)? My
"goal" is to have a dedicated backup server with drives that contain mirrors
of all the partitions on all machines' drives. If a machine fails for any
reason, just unplug the appropriate hard drive(s) containing the appropriate
partitions, install them in a new box, and I'm up and running. I've spec'd
the software I need but haven't yet written it; rSync might be a perfect choice.

> >dSync is _mirroring_ software. This means it will
> >delete anything in the target tree that isn't in the source tree, so make
> >sure you don't accidentally run it "backwards" or your new files will be
> >deleted.
>
> This is configurable. See the very handy -u option.

A good reminder. -u doesn't delete any files from the target path. If
you're really into backing up everything forever, you can timetag every
archived filename (a little Rexx will do it) and have a complete history.

Like this (from my own G:\ directory):

2-22-07 11:52a 55863 0 CONFIG.SYS
3-14-00 3:35a 29265 35 CONFIG.SYS-20000314-0335-DIALUP
4-07-00 1:37p 29298 35 CONFIG.SYS-20000407-1337-MPTS
3-08-02 12:59p 40268 35 CONFIG.SYS-20020308-1259-RSJ
4-27-03 1:00p 45491 42 CONFIG.SYS-20030427-1300
5-08-03 3:42a 45469 42 CONFIG.SYS-20030508-0342
5-08-03 3:53a 44423 42 CONFIG.SYS-20030508-0353
5-11-04 12:50p 47318 35 CONFIG.SYS-20040511-1250
1-28-04 9:36a 50217 0 CONFIG.SYS-20041128-0936
1-28-04 1:49p 50291 0 CONFIG.SYS-20041128-1349
1-30-04 10:37p 50871 0 CONFIG.SYS-20041130-2237
1-11-05 9:12p 51226 0 CONFIG.SYS-20050111-2112
4-06-05 1:58a 51424 0 CONFIG.SYS-20050406-0158
6-05-05 3:12p 51456 0 CONFIG.SYS-20050605-1512
6-16-05 6:17p 51552 0 CONFIG.SYS-20050616-1817
0-14-05 10:51a 52363 0 CONFIG.SYS-20051014-1051
0-16-05 7:39p 52847 0 CONFIG.SYS-20051016-1939
0-27-05 6:55p 53226 0 CONFIG.SYS-20051027-1855
1-02-05 1:51p 53670 0 CONFIG.SYS-20051102-1351
1-02-05 5:01p 53970 0 CONFIG.SYS-20051102-1701
1-02-05 5:24p 54217 0 CONFIG.SYS-20051102-1724
1-02-05 11:28p 54224 0 CONFIG.SYS-20051102-2328
2-24-05 12:10p 54352 0 CONFIG.SYS-20051224-1210
1-14-06 7:47a 54480 0 CONFIG.SYS-20060114-0747
1-24-06 4:20p 54608 0 CONFIG.SYS-20060124-1620
2-14-06 10:26p 54628 0 CONFIG.SYS-20060214-2226
2-15-06 11:46a 54778 0 CONFIG.SYS-20060215-1146
2-15-06 1:47p 55546 0 CONFIG.SYS-20060215-1347
2-26-06 11:36p 55763 0 CONFIG.SYS-20060226-2336

- Paranoid Pete

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