[BNM] Transferring 60GB of files from one server to another

[Barney Livingston]

On Tuesday 02 December 2008 14:57:29 James Moss wrote:
> Thanks Olly, I'll look into rsync.

rsync over ssh will be exactly as slow as scp on the first run. It only gets 
more efficient on subsequent runs. You could turn on compression to speed it 
up slightly.

> As for the mysql, i was thinking about the /data directory too.  Would it
> matter if the mysql versions were slightly different (old is 5.0.22, new is
> 5.1.30).

I'd guess that it absolutely would matter, yes.

Barney