SYNOPSIS

[-h ] [-v ] [-n jobs ] [-f files ] [-s size ] [-w wrks ] [-d shdir ] [-t tmpdir ] [-r jobname ] [-o rsyncopts ] [-O fpartopts ] [-S ] src_dir/ dst_dir/

DESCRIPTION

The tool synchronizes directories in parallel using fpart(1) and rsync(1). It computes subsets of src_dir/ and spawns rsync(1) jobs to synchronize them to dst_dir/

Synchronization jobs can be executed either locally or remotely (using SSH workers, see option -w and are executed on-the-fly while filesystem crawling goes on. This makes a good tool for migrating large filesystems.

OPTIONS

-h

Print help

-v

Verbose mode. Can be be specified several times to increase verbosity level.

-n jobs

Start jobs concurrent sync jobs (either locally or remotely, see below). Default: 2

-f files

Transfer at most files files per sync job. Default: 2000

-s size

Transfer at most size bytes per sync job.
Default: 4294967296 (4 GB)

-w wrks

Use remote SSH wrks to synchronize files. Synchronization jobs are executed locally when this option is not set. wrks is a space-separated list of login@machine connection strings and can be specified several times. You must be allowed to connect to those machines using a SSH key to avoid user interaction.

-d shdir

Set shared directory to shdir This option is mandatory when using SSH workers and set by default to tmpdir when running locally. The specified directory must be an absolute path ; it will be used to handle communications with SSH hosts (sharing partitions and log files) and, as a consequence, must be made available to all participating hosts (e.g. through a r/w NFS mount), including the master one running .

-t tmpdir

Set temporary directory to tmpdir This directory remains local and does not need to be shared amongst SSH workers when using the -w option. Default: /tmp/fpsync

-r jobname

Resume job jobname and restart synchronizing remaining partitions from a previous run. jobname can be obtained using verbose mode (see option -v ) Note that filesystem crawling is skipped when resuming a previous run. As a consequence, options -f -s -o -O -S src_dir/ and dst_dir/ are ignored.

-o rsyncopts

Override default rsync(1) options with rsyncopts Use this option with care as certain options are incompatible with a parallel usage (e.g. --delete ) Default: -av --numeric-ids

-O fpartopts

Override default fpart(1) options with fpartopts
Default: -x .zfs -x .snapshot* -x .ckpt

-S

Sudo mode. Use sudo(8) for filesystem crawling and synchronizations.

src_dir/

Source directory. It must be absolute and available on all participating hosts (including the master one, running )

dst_dir/

Destination directory. It must be absolute and available on all participating workers.

RUNNING FPSYNC

Each run generates a unique jobname which is displayed in verbose mode (see option -v and within log files. You can use that jobname to resume a previous run (see option -r ) will then restart synchronizing data from the parts that were being synchonized at the time it stopped.

This unique feature gives the administrator the ability to stop and restart it later, without having to restart the whole filesystem crawling and synchronization process. Note that resuming is only possible when filesystem crawling step has finished.

During synchronization, you can press CTRL-C to interrupt the process. The first CTRL-C prevents new synchronizations from being submitted and the process will wait for current synchronizations to be finished before exiting. If you press CTRL-C again, current synchronizations will be killed and will exit immediately.

On certain systems, CTRL-T can be pressed to get the status of current and remaining parts to be synchronized. This can also be achieved by sending a SIGINFO to the process.

Whether you use verbose mode or not, everything is logged within shdir/log/

EXAMPLES

Here are some examples:

fpsync -n 4 /usr/src/ /var/src/

Synchronizes /usr/src/ to /var/src/ using 4 local jobs.

fpsync -n 2 -w login@machine1 -w login@machine2 -d /mnt/fpsync /mnt/src/ /mnt/dst/

Synchronizes /mnt/src/ to /mnt/dst/ using 2 concurrent jobs executed remotely on 2 SSH workers (machine1 and machine2). The shared directory is set to /mnt/fpsync and mounted on the machine running , as well as on machine1 and machine2. The source directory ( /mnt/src/ is also available on those 3 machines, while the destination directory ( /mnt/dst/ is mounted on SSH workers only (machine1 and machine2).

LIMITS

Parallelizing rsync(1) makes several options not usable, such as --delete If your source directory is live while is running, you will have to delete extra files from destination directory. This is usually done by using a final -offline- rsync(1) pass that will use this option.

enqueues synchronization jobs on disk, within the tmpdir/queue directory. Be careful to host this queue on a filesystem that can handle fine-grained mtime timestamps (i.e. with a sub-second precision) if you want the queue to be processed in order when fpart(1) generates several jobs per second. On FreeBSD, VFS(9) timestamps' precision can be tuned using the 'vfs.timestamp_precision' sysctl. See vfs_timestamp9.

AUTHOR, AVAILABILITY

Fpsync has been written by An Ganaël LAPLANCHE and is available under the BSD license on Lk http://contribs.martymac.org