[ale] rsync and link files

[Michael Still (mikes)]

Are you using the -a switch?   

On another rsync note.. I have a system here that I'm trying to do local
rsync with to make 'poor man's mirror' of my disk.

I have 2 identical 18G SCSI hd's on sda and sdb and partitioned exactly the
same with a /boot and a / (no swap..yeah I know), but the problem is that
when I reboot with this disk to test my mirror lilo gives LI 01 01 01 01...
So there is a problem somewhere.

Any ideas?  Better ways to do this?

-begin lilo.conf:
boot = /dev/sdb
timeout = 50
prompt
default = mike
vga = normal
read-only
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b

image = /boot/bzImage-mike
        label = mike
        root = /dev/sda2
-end lilo.conf

-beging sync.sh:
mount /mnt/backup/root
mount /mnt/backup/root/boot
/usr/bin/rsync --delete -xav / /mnt/backup/root
/usr/bin/rsync --delete -xav /boot/ /mnt/backup/root/boot
#/usr/sbin/chroot /mnt/backup/root /sbin/lilo -C /root/sync/lilo.conf
/sbin/lilo -r /mnt/backup/root -v -v -v -C /root/sync/lilo.conf
sync ; sync ; sync
umount /mnt/backup/root/boot
umount /mnt/backup/root
-end sync.sh

# fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2213 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *         1        13    104391   83  Linux
/dev/sda2            14      2211  17655435   83  Linux

# fdisk -l /dev/sdb

Disk /dev/sdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2213 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *         1        13    104391   83  Linux
/dev/sdb2            14      2211  17655435   83  Linux

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Michael Still (MikeS at McBurney.com)
System Administrator
The McBurney Corporation
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-----Original Message-----
From: aaron [mailto:aaron at pd.org]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 1:16 PM
To: ALE
Subject: [ale] rsync and link files



Was trying to use "rsync" to locally mirror my RH 7.1 hard drive (and 
create a long overdue backup) before updating to RH 7.2

For the most part, rsync is being a gem.  However, I would like to 
maintain the various soft, hard and absolute link files in most 
directories and rsync is not transfering or recreating any of the links.

I have reviewed the man and tried several combinations of the link 
handling options listed there with no success. Anyone have a clue
what I might be missing to get the links to be mirrored with the regular 
files??

thanks...
aaron


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