heres a thought, for an external backup of the disk, dont use rsync. just
copy it over to the external drive. you could jsut tar.gz it over and
preserve the hard links also.
On Jan 3, 2008 7:29 AM, Sean Carolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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
>
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