Sean Carolan wrote: > We are using backuppc in our production environment and it's working > well. I would like to start doing regular backups of the BackupPC > server to external USB drives. The problem we've run into is that > there are so many files, rsync dies with an 'out of memory' error. > > I thought about breaking my rsync process into smaller batches, but > the dozens of directories and subdirectories inside pc and cpool were > a bit daunting. Any suggestions? I'm curious to see how you all > handle this situation. > I was just noticing that xfs_copy is now ported to Linux (several years ago when I was using XFS on legacy Red Hat, it was not) which means that if you backup to an XFS filesystem, you could do an xfs_freeze and the use xfs_copy to copy the whole filesystem to another device, will preserve hard links and all. Alternatively, you could use xfsdump and pipe to xfsrestore to a different device.
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