On 12/20 10:02 , daniel berteaud wrote:
> To migrate backuppc data, I use the command
> 
> rsync -aP -H --stats /source /destination
> 
> it's quite long, depending on the number of files, and it can need a
> huge amount of memory, but it's working. For a local migration, you
> can also use GNU cp with

yeah, I tried using rsync to do a local move of 100GB of backuppc pool. on a
512MB machine, with perhaps 2GB of swap, it crushed the box to the point I
had to power-cycle it to get control back.

dd bypasses those memory problems. if you want to move it across the
network, pipe it through netcat. I moved 200GB of backuppc pool across the
network that way in about 12 hours. once on the new box, I just used the
reiserfs resize utility to make the filesystem large enough to take
advantage of all the space. 

-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com

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