<html dir="ltr"><head></head><body style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;"><div>Nice! I didn't use -H -X and the system had to do some clean up.</div><div><br></div><div>I'll add this in my next migration progress as I move 120TB to new hard drives.</div><div><br></div><div>On Mon, 2019-04-01 at 14:27 -0400, Tom Fite wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>I have a very large (65 TB) brick in a replica 2 volume that needs to be re-copied from scratch. A heal will take a very long time with performance degradation on the volume so I investigated using rsync to do the brunt of the work.</div><div><br></div><div>The command:</div><div><br></div><div>rsync -av -H -X --numeric-ids --progress server1:/data/brick1/gv0 /data/brick1/<br></div><div><br></div><div>Running with -H assures that the hard links in .glusterfs are preserved, and -X preserves all of gluster's extended attributes.</div><div><br></div><div>I've tested this on my test environment as follows:</div><div><br></div><div>1. Stop glusterd and kill procs</div><div>2. Move brick volume to backup dir</div><div>3. Run rsync</div><div>4. Start glusterd</div><div>5. Observe gluster status</div><div><br></div><div>All appears to be working correctly. Gluster status reports all bricks online, all data is accessible in the volume, and I don't see any errors in the logs.</div><div><br></div><div>Anybody else have experience trying this?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div>-Tom</div></div></div>
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