It still explodes in size. I can't necessarily use raid or dd because the drive sizes are different. my external drive is much smaller than my actual backup drive. At my backups current space usage, I can fit it on the external drive but I don't want to limit my actual backup drive to my externals size. That's why I am trying to get rsync to work the way that I want it to.
On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 13:02 -0800, David Rees wrote:
On 12/20/05, Jon Scottorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have everything running good with my backup system, but now I want to rsync all or > /var/lib/backuppc to an external hard drive for an offsite backup. > When I run the rsync, everything syncs fine except the cpool directory. If I do a du on > /var/lib/backuppc/cpool it's size is 3.8 GB. If I do it on me external device, the size is 104 > GB. So I keep running out of disk space on my external drive. How do I keep the sizes the > same? cpool uses hardlinks. rsync by default does not preserve hardlinks which is why the copy you make explodes in size. If you specify -H to rsync, it will preserve hard-links, but expect it to take a LONG time. More common backup methods is to use a RAID1 array for the backup pool, when you want to make a backup, insert a drive and let the RAID sync up the backup drive. Another method is to backup the raw partition image. -Dave ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
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