[Lustre-discuss] rsync --sparse actually work on RHEL5?

[Andreas Dilger]

On 2009-10-23, at 21:38, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> I have been experimenting with MDT backup/restore (aka: transplant).
>
> Given that I want to transplant to a new device on the same MDS, I can
> use rsync so that the EAs are transplanted in tandem with the files
> rather than as an after-thought with getfattr.
>
> Tar requires the more clunky getfattr afterwards because this is RHEL5
> and RHEL5's tar doesn't appear to have EA support in it.

We actually have a patched tar from FC11(?) tar-1.19 that has --xattr
support in it.  Available at the download site.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.