Re: W: best way to clone server data using rsync

[Tuxoholic <tuxoholic@hotmail.de>]

I noticed rsh is not installed, it's linked to /etc/alternatives/rsh, 
which is linked to /usr/bin/ssh.

Calling rsh instead of ssh should avoid file encryption during transfer, 
at least that was the intention.

The socket options boost transfer speed quite a lot, I usually have 
65355 buffers on my samba server, using rsync directly I can increase it 
some more.

partial-dir does not work along with append, so I got rid of it.

I'll leave the rest as is minus the recursive option

Thanks for the inputs!


On 01.05.2012 18:43, Dan Ritter wrote:
> On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 01:08:14PM +0200, Tuxoholic wrote:
> > Here's what I got so far from google research:
> >
> > rsync --sockopts=SO_SNDBUF=128000,SO_RCVBUF=128000 -e rsh --archive \
> > --recursive --partial --partial-dir=rsync-part --progress --append \
> > --files-from=/root/LISTOFFILES.txt --log-file=/root/rsync.log \
> > root@myserver:/PATH2myOLDServerPool/* /mnt/Mount2myNewServerPool
>
> You don't need the sockopts. -a includes recursive. You probably
> don't want partial or partial-dir. You probably don't want
> append.
>
> Having rsh installed is a bad security risk. Install ssh, make
> sure you can ssh from this box to myserver as root. Change
> -e rsh to -e ssh.
>
> -dsr-