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Seeking for a tool to sync data between two file system (volumes) on host.

heightsnj — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 20:18:27 GMT

It seems that clone split takes VERY long time, and plus the data we are interested in only a portion of data on the volume. So, I am seeking a tool to sync data, which will sync data non-disruptively, then may be a short period of disrution in last update.

Are there such tool on Linux server? Can "rsync" do that? I'd appreciate it if you could provide detailed steps/options.

Thanks!

Re: Split a clone to a regular volume, is this a transparent process?

J_curl — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 20:24:18 GMT

If you mean non-disruptive, then yes it is. It can take quite a while to complete.

Re: Seeking for a tool to sync data between two file system (volumes) on host.

Michael_Orr — Fri, 08 Jul 2016 20:24:58 GMT

The sync part is easy for rsync; with the proper set of parameters, it can sync in a variety of ways.

The non-disruptive part, however, would be a problem. Your best bet may be to programatically handle the final sync yourself. You could run an rsync on a live database to copy over what could be done, then quiesce the database/application, flush the data to the volume if need be, and then run a final 'rsync --inplace' to grab the updated blocks.