Re: [BackupPC-users] Moving /var/lib/BackupPC to a new disk fails with rsync and OOM

2016-09-06 Thread Benjamin Redling
Am 05.09.2016 um 17:07 schrieb Colin: > # df -h /var/lib/BackupPC > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sdb1 493G 394G 74G 85% /var/lib/BackupPC > > # rsync -aH /var/lib/BackupPC/. /mnt/. > So far I've tried just rsync'ing individual directories under > /var/lib/Back

Re: [BackupPC-users] Moving /var/lib/BackupPC to a new disk fails with rsync and OOM

2016-09-06 Thread Colin
Thank you Benjamin. I ended doing the dd like: dd if=/dev/sdb1 | pv -s 400G | dd of=/dev/sdc1 bs=16M That took around 5h total, which was great! Being stuck with the same filesystem sucks but it seems without any bigger window of downtime, there isn't any tool that would be possible to use. Than

Re: [BackupPC-users] Moving /var/lib/BackupPC to a new disk fails with rsync and OOM

2016-09-06 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Colin wrote on 2016-09-05 17:46:34 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Moving /var/lib/BackupPC to a new disk fails with rsync and OOM]: > Thank you Les! > I'll have a go tomorrow after backups with something similar as: > dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=/dev/sdc1 bs=16M > [...] > On 5 September 2016 at 17:03, Le

Re: [BackupPC-users] Moving /var/lib/BackupPC to a new disk fails with rsync and OOM

2016-09-06 Thread Johan Ehnberg
On 09/06/2016 04:46 PM, Colin wrote: > Thank you Benjamin. > > I ended doing the dd like: > dd if=/dev/sdb1 | pv -s 400G | dd of=/dev/sdc1 bs=16M > > That took around 5h total, which was great! > Being stuck with the same filesystem sucks but it seems without any > bigger window of downtime, there