You might need to compile a kernel with a large default
data segment size, make sure tmp has enough room, or
set TMPDIR/TEMPDIR for restore.

Dump/resture should DTRT. 

rsync -H will as well, but again, going back to needing lots of memory to 
store all that hardlink info...

On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 11:04:25PM +0100, Andreas Maus wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Just a wild guess ...
> Do you tried rsync?
> (Although I don't know how rsync deals with _hard_ links).
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Andreas.
> 
> 
> On 12/15/06, Matthias Bertschy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
> >OpenBSD 3.7 - i386
> >Pentium 4 3GHz - 1GB RAM - 2GB swap
> >
> >Hello list,
> >
> >For the past 3 weeks, I have been working on a difficult problem: moving
> >a backuppc (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/) pool from a RAID0 to a big
> >disk, in order to free the RAID0 before rebuilding a RAID5.
> >
> >The RAID0 has one partition, its size is 2112984700 blocks (512-blocks),
> >roughly 1008GB, which is close to the maximum allowed by ffs. The big
> >disk is 300GB.
> >
> >I need to move 96GB of data which are, due to backuppc design, full of
> >hardlinks!
> >
> >So far, I have tried to use:
> >    1) dd: impossible because the partitions cannot be the same size
> >(and the RAID5 won't be the same size as the RAID0)
> >    2) pax -rw: after transferring almost 70GB, it bails out with a
> >"Segmentation fault"
> >    3) tar to archive: after something like 60GB, it complains with some
> >"file name too long" errors
> >    4) gtar to archive (from package gtar-1.15.1p0-static.tgz): ends up
> >with a "gtar: memory exhauted" error
> >    5) dump to file: successful but
> >    5') restore from file: stops even before starting due to a "no
> >memory for entry table" error (there is still a lot of unused memory and
> >swap - and no ulimit)
> >
> >Any help is appreciated because I really don't know what to do next.
> >
> >Matthias Bertschy
> >Echo Technologies SA
> >
> >
> 
> 
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