Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
> This is topic is discussed pretty regularly on this mailinglist.
> Please also search the archives. 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).
>
> Nils Breunese.
>
I don't recall seeing 'dump' offered as an alternative for backing up
the repository in this topic we see so often. I've been recently
considering using it for offline storage. Have I just missed those
particular threads?
DUMP(8) System management commands
DUMP(8)
NAME
dump - ext2/3 filesystem backup
SYNOPSIS
dump [-level#] [-ackMnqSuv] [-A file] [-B records] [-b blocksize]
[-d den-
sity] [-D file] [-e inode numbers] [-E file] [-f file] [-F
script] [-h
level] [-I nr errors] [-jcompression level] [-L label] [-Q file]
[-s feet]
[-T date] [-y] [-zcompression level] files-to-dump
dump [-W | -w]
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