On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 03:45:43PM +0100, Matthias Bertschy wrote: > For the last 4 weeks, I have been doing everything I could to try to > move our current backuppc pool (Pool is 79.18GB comprising 1132632 files > and 4369 directories) from a RAID0 to a RAID5 having different > filesystem sizes. > > The operating system is OpenBSD, so the filesystem is FFS, and I have > tried so far: > > * tar > * gtar (GNU version of tar) > * pax > * dump --> restore > > And none of them was able to successfully copy the pool. > I suspect this has to do with the huge number of hardlinks within the > pool, and requiring too much memory to catalog them all.
Yes, the hardlinks are difficult to cope with. > dd is not an option as the filesystems cannot be the same size. Could you dd, then resize the file system? Tino. -- www.quantenfeuerwerk.de www.spiritualdesign-chemnitz.de www.lebensraum11.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
