On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 01:27:17PM +0100, Oliver Freyd wrote: > Hello, > > I'm a happy user of BackupPC since a few years, > running an old installation of backuppc that was created > on some version of SuSE linux, then ported over to debian lenny. > > The pool is a reiserfs3 on LVM, about 300GB size, but with a lot of > hardlinks... > Now I'm trying to put the pool onto a new filesystem, so I created an > XFS on a striped RAID0 of 3 disks (to speed up copying), and use > rsync -aHv to copy everything including the hardlinks. > The cpool itself took about a day, and now it is running for 6 days and > maybe it has done 70% of the work. BTW, a copy with dd takes about 2 hours. > > I've tried to do this with BackupPC_TarPCCopy, but it does not seem to > be any faster.
IME it's *much* faster that way; you do BackupPC_TarPCCopy, and then rsync the cpoll *without -H*. It shouldn't take any longer than the actual data transfer time itself. I've moved user backups of a TiB and larger in a day or two this way. If you try to copy BackupPC data with rsync -H, you're doing it wrong. -Robin -- http://singinst.org/ : Our last, best hope for a fantastic future. Lojban (http://www.lojban.org/): The language in which "this parrot is dead" is "ti poi spitaki cu morsi", but "this sentence is false" is "na nei". My personal page: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/rlp/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What happens now with your Lotus Notes apps - do you make another costly upgrade, or settle for being marooned without product support? Time to move off Lotus Notes and onto the cloud with Force.com, apps are easier to build, use, and manage than apps on traditional platforms. Sign up for the Lotus Notes Migration Kit to learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/salesforce-d2d _______________________________________________ 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/