I have a 2 1.5TB drives containing numerous video, audio, documents etc that I would like to essentially mirror to 2 other drives for backup. I would like to do this using rsync (as it seems the most appropriate thing to use).
What command should I use to do so? Is there anything to be aware of when rsyncing NTFS partitioned drives/files?
EDIT:
To clarify I am running NTFS formatted drives in Kubuntu 10.04 machine. I am rsync'ing the drives from here.
Best Answer
With rsync on unix, use --archive, and don't forget the --sparse and --hard-links options. I don't know if NTFS or the NTFS driver you use (ntfs-3g or kernel) supports sparse files and/or hardlinks, but it's good practice when using rsync for backups.
Also remember that --archive doesn't do --acls and --xattrs, but with NTFS, that doesn't matter.
I don't know how different rsync behaves on a Windows system, though.