Peter Walter wrote: > For me, the matter could be resolved if a > way was found to at least backup a backuppc server in a reasonable > fashion without requiring particular filesystems and utilities such as > zfs send/receive.
But there is a reasonable way: unmount the partition and image-copy the raw disk or partition. Given that the issue with other approaches is that the head has to seek all over the place to access the same amount of data through the filesystem, this solves the problem neatly with one linear pass. Or, get the same effect by raid-mirroring to your backup device so you only have to unmount momentarily to fail/remove the other copy. Zfs improves on this since it has an incremental mode that is still based on the block device. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ 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/