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<div>Hi Folks:</div><div><br></div><div>I'm looking at backups - simple backups right now.</div><div><br></div><div>We have a strategy where an old computer is mounted with a large external, removable hard drive. Directories - large directories - that we have on our other production servers are mounted on this small computer via NFS. A cron job then does a simple "cp" from the NFS mounted production drive partitions to to the large, external, removable hard drive.</div><div><br></div><div>I thought it was an elegant solution, myself, except for one small, niggling detail.</div><div><br></div><div>It doesn't work.</div><div><br></div><div>The process doesn't copy all the files. Oh, we're not having a problem with file locks, no. When you do a "du -sh <directory>" comparison between the /scsi/web directory on the backup drive and the production /scsi/web directory the differences measure in the GB. For example my production /scsi partition has 62GB on it. The most recently done backup has 42GB on it!</div><div><br></div><div>What our research found is that the cp command apparently has a limit of copying 250,000 inodes. I have image directories on the webserver that have 114,000 files so this is the limit I think I'm running into.</div><div><br></div><div>While I'm looking at solutions like Bacula and Amanda, etc., I'm wondering if RSYNCing the files may work. Or will I run into the same limitation?</div><div><br></div><div>Any thoughts?</div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div>---</div><div>Richard 'Doc' Kinne, [KQR]</div><div>American Association of Variable Star Observers</div><div><rkinne @ aavso.org></div><div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>