Jim Leonard wrote at about 22:07:36 -0500 on Tuesday, September 1, 2009: > > > I have already mentioned that your filesystem's "dump" utility > > > works perfectly well for copying your filesystem, hardlinks and all, > > > ACLs and all, to another filesystem/file/tape/whatever. I think you > > > should actually sit down and use it before making claims that > > backuppc's > > > pool isn't copyable using normal methods. > > > > But how does that scale with number of hardlinks? Will it crash and > > run out of memory? Will it thrash around in swap? Will it reliably > > copy and recreate everything? If it doesn't scale well then it is not > > a practical solution. > > It scales wonderfully. Please use dump/vxdump/ufsdump/etc. before > bashing it.
Interesting... just yesterday I believe Holger mentioned that dump is unlikely to scale. How big a pool have you tried it on? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/
