[ale] rsyncing *large* drives

[Denny Chambers]

I use it to sync a 100+ GB SW Raid machine to another machine. I only 
have about 47 GB used. I can't say I have any commplaints about how it 
works.

Denny

John Wells wrote:

>We have a need to mirror an entire 80 GB harddrive on a nightly basis. 
>rsync would seem ideal for this sort of thing, but I've never used it for
>syncs over a gigabyte and am concerned that the large size of the drive
>might give it's comparison routines a headache, particularly if that 80GB
>consists for the most part of small files.
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>Anyone used rsync in this type of situation?  If not, do you have any
>suggestions?
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>Thanks!
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>John
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