On Dec 7, 2010, at 2:44 PM, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 02:18:51PM -0500, Dan Pritts wrote: >> umount /var/lib/backuppc >> dd if=/dev/onedisk of=/dev/someotherdisk bs=1M > > Only works if you have identical disks, which is hard when you've > got a few TiB on a SAN.
The disks do not have to be identical. The target just has to be as big or bigger than the source. The target "disk" of course could be another SAN lun, a linux softraid of external disks, etc. Currently, my offsite backup set consists of 2 pairs of disks containing my backuppc filesystem and other data. With 2TB disks, a 10TB disk-based offsite would be doable, although it would clearly take quite a while to cut the disks. If I had that big a pool, I think I'd not be using a single backuppc instance, but that's just me. I'm guessing it works well for you, I'm glad it does. danno ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
