On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 15:38, Justin Pessa wrote: > I am interested in seeing what others do to move their backup data to > other media for rotational backups. > > Currently I use a series of hotswappable SATA drives and rsync to > transfer the contents of /var/lib/backuppc to the removable disk. Is > there a better solution?
This has been discussed several times if you wade through the archives for this list. There is a problem duplicating the hard links with any file-based copying technique because there is no handy way to find which links are the same other than matching their device/inode numbers which becomes slow as the archive grows. Image copies of the storage device work nicely, though. This can be done by unmounting the volume and dd'ing to the matching drive, by letting RAID1 mirrors sync, or by using LVM, making a snapshot and then dd'ing the snapshot image to a different partition. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
