best way to mirror (not backup)

[Robert Weber]

Just use rsync,

http://rsync.samba.org

						Robert Weber
						Univeristy of Colorado
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> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have been using rdiff-backup to backup servers now
> for a month or so (works great!).
> 
> However, I currently need to mirror one server to
> another (we are removing the old server and I need to
> copy all of /home/* over).
> 
> I plan to do a complete mirror and then right before
> the move do another mirror to get to get the latest
> changes to the disk.
> 
> My question is this:
> 
> Can anyone recommend the best command-line to do this?
> 
> 
> Would it be best to just do a backup and then delete
> the rdiff-backup-data dir right before I make the new
> server live?
> 
> Does anyone have any advice or know of any gotcha's I
> should watch out for. I'd like the new servers home
> dirs to look as identical to the old ones as possible.
> I want to avoid a bunch of question about why there
> are extra files in their dir, etc. if rdiff-backup
> leaves some extra files around.
> 
> [again please note: I'm being a bit lazy not looking
> this up for myself - feel free to ignore - I'm just
> hoping that perhaps someone has already done this and
> is in a talkative mood to discuss the issue]
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
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Resolved: by weberr Mon Aug  5 16:26:10 2002
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