Rob Sheldon wrote at about 12:04:15 -0700 on Wednesday, May 11, 2011: > On Wed, 11 May 2011 14:32:56 -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > > > How big was your pool and pc tree? > > We currently have two BackupPC servers we work with -- one of them is > only about 20G of disk but is using a silly number of inodes (it's > backing up a maildir mail server, among other things), and I think the > other is around 3 or 4 TB of disk used at the moment. I don't remember > which one we had to move, it happened about a year ago. The best I can > recall is that we struggled with rsync for a week or so, then I found > out about tarpipes and that got the job done overnight. > > You're right though, on second look, it looks like rsync -a should work > just as well as tar. I'll have to do another BackupPC pool transfer in a > few days, and now I'm curious what (if any) difference there is between > tar and rsync, so I'll try both. >
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