Hello, the commentary from Rob Steele bellow the article in http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/010037.html seems quite relevant to me. I have tried rsync and cp in the past but had the already mentioned memory and time issues so I'm planning to give his suggestion (BackupPC_tarPCCopy to make the first copy) a try.
Cheers, -- Fernando Laudares Camargos Révolution Linux http://www.revolutionlinux.com --------------------------------------- * Tout opinion et prise de position exprimée dans ce message est celle de son auteur et pas nécessairement celle de Révolution Linux. ** Any views and opinion presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Révolution Linux. Ermanno Novali wrote: > Hi everyone, > i'm a backuppc user and i use it on several different linux servers, > with backuppc backupping in some cases to internal hdd, raid or external hdds. > > I'd like to mirror the backuppc pool - I searched through ml archives > and found that mirroring the backuppc pool (wherever it is) with rsync > on an external hard drive isn't efficient and doesn't scale good - > i've tried myself and is cpu and time consuming and very very long for > big pools - not very reliable. > > So i've tried to mirror the pool with rdiff-backup, and it seems a > little better, but not the optimal solution. > > In this ml the best solutions for this task are two hdd with pool on > them (two external, or two in raid maybe) or dd form pool to external > mirror disk - but NOT mirroring the backup with rsync or something > like that - right? can you confirm that? > > And dd is time consuming like rsync but more reliable for backuppc pool? > > Thank you so much, > have a nice day > > Ermanno > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > 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/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ 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/