[WBEL-users] Raid

Sudev Barar sudev@mantraonline.com
Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:00:33 +0530


On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 22:56, Kirby C. Bohling wrote:
> 	I've seen rsync got thru some incompatibility issues that no one
> can every seem to explain.  At one point kernel.org finally just
> posted a note that said if you are using the version 2.5.X of rsync,
> it might fail mysteriously don't complain, get 2.5.Y[1].  I've seen
> rsync leave processes lingering around days and days later that
> never died without rebooting or manually killing them when run in
> daemon mode.  I use it when it is the right tool for the job.  I use
> rsync to create multiple backups around my network of important
> files in an automated fashion, but I never use it to move my one
> good copy of data around.

Running rsync from crontab every hour to sync files on two servers. No
issues for last six months.
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Sudev Barar
Learning Linux