On 22.08.2018 21:15, Nino Bosteels wrote:
I read that instead of dd you could use dump, which actually is aware of free
disk space for ext(3-4). Any ideas?
Dump is not an option for you. You will be able to make dump as it copies data
at block level, but restore works at file level, so, it w
y ideas?
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> And would it be an idea to let Nightlies run a couple of times?
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> Thanks for your answer in any case ! It’s going to be.. weeks yeah :s
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> Nino
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Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Copying backups to other host
Nino-
If your old BackupPC instance is version 3.x, then you're advised to use 'dd'
to make a perfect image of the device that the cpool folder resides in.
BackupPC 3.x uses extensive use of har
Nino-
If your old BackupPC instance is version 3.x, then you're advised to
use 'dd' to make a perfect image of the device that the cpool folder
resides in. BackupPC 3.x uses extensive use of hardlinks, and the
only reliable to copy the cpool is to take an image of the block device
with 'dd'.
Ba
Dear list,
We're trying to copy the backups from one instance to another to use them as an
archive, whilst starting a fresh backuppc on another instance.
But we're not sure which folders to copy and even more so, how. We've been
using rsync -avzH -delete to copy the pc folder over. But now we'r
