> This is topic is discussed pretty regularly on this mailinglist. > Please also search the archives.
Thanks, Nils. If the sourceforge.net mailing list search engine were not so broken, I would gladly have combed through the archives. As it stands I was unable to successfully search even for common words like "USB" or "external", both of which returned no results. I even tried the "advanced search" but to no avail. > Because of the heavy use of hardlinks > breaking the pool up into smaller batches is not really feasible and > indeed rsync doesn't really handle very large numbers of files and > hardlinks (because it needs to load the full trees in memory). I > believe the most common solution is not to backup the backup server, > but to use RAID (and rotate disks offsite) or use a second backup > server (so each host is backed up separately by each backup server). Thanks, this is exactly what I needed to know. I'm working out a system to simply tar up all the files once a week, as a last-resort recovery option. Regards, Sean ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
