On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 15:45 +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. > dd is not an option as the filesystems cannot be the same size. > > Has anyone a clue on how to solve my problem? > Thanks, and happy new year :-)
The straightforward way is to just copy the configurations over and let the new system start from scratch, keeping the old drives around for some interval so you could restore a historical copy if required. In this case that's an especially good idea since you may see much worse performance on the RAID5 setup. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
