Michael Stowe wrote at about 10:45:01 -0500 on Wednesday, May 11, 2011:
 > 
 > Thought I'd mention that I'm in the process of moving my 1TB backup pool
 > from one jfs array to another on the same system.  Both arrays are RAID-5
 > via mdadm.
 > 
 > I'm using "rsync -avP -H src dest," which I started Friday, nearly five
 > days ago.

How many files in the pool and the pc tree?

 > The data in cpool moved relatively quickly.  On the other hand, rsync has
 > been re-establishing hard links to the pc directories for quite a while,
 > and has quite a ways to go.  On the plus side, it's showing no signs of
 > stopping or running out of resources, so it looks like it will do the job
 > ... eventually.
 > 

Well if that doesn't work or if you get tired of waiting, you can try
my script BackupPC_copyPCpool.pl
(actually it would be great to get more people benchmarking it to see
how fast it is relative to straight rsync -- I would expect it to take
less than 5 days :P)

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