Re: [BackupPC-users] cloning the pool

2009-03-25 Thread Matteo Sgalaberni
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 08:31:17PM +0100, stoffell wrote: Pool is 235.52GB comprising 718235 files and 4369 directories (as of 19/3 04:12), Well, we just finished rsync'ing (after two days.. ) our complete backuppc disk to new disks (over a dedicated gigabit ethernet link). Currently

Re: [BackupPC-users] cloning the pool

2009-03-19 Thread Les Mikesell
Koen Linders wrote: If you want an idea what isn't possible; A year ago I tried copying a much pool much smaller too an USB disk than my current (see lower), using a Xeon 2.8 GHz/1 MB with 2 GB DDR and it ran out of memory copying via rsync -H Somewhere in the mailing is other

Re: [BackupPC-users] cloning the pool

2009-03-19 Thread Koen Linders
: [BackupPC-users] cloning the pool I want to clone the pool to a local disk attached via USB. I can't made it with a dd because the pool is on a raid volume that don't contain the pool only. We're about to do exactly the same thing. This to get ourselves a weekly off-site copy. We will use 500 GB

[BackupPC-users] cloning the pool

2009-03-18 Thread Matteo Sgalaberni
Hi, I want to clone the pool to a local disk attached via USB. I can't made it with a dd because the pool is on a raid volume that don't contain the pool only. Does it exist best practice to do this? Thanks Matteo --

Re: [BackupPC-users] cloning the pool

2009-03-18 Thread Les Mikesell
Matteo Sgalaberni wrote: Hi, I want to clone the pool to a local disk attached via USB. I can't made it with a dd because the pool is on a raid volume that don't contain the pool only. Does it exist best practice to do this? If you have a small pool and sufficient RAM, you may be able to

Re: [BackupPC-users] cloning the pool

2009-03-18 Thread Simone Marzona
On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 18:43 +0100, Matteo Sgalaberni wrote: Does it exist best practice to do this? Hi, search for previous posts on the list for using rsync for doing this (or backuppc_tarpccopy maybe?).. stupid solution (depending on the size of your array..): dd and then rm ??

Re: [BackupPC-users] cloning the pool

2009-03-18 Thread David Lasker
@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [BackupPC-users] cloning the pool Hi, I want to clone the pool to a local disk attached via USB. I can't made it with a dd because the pool is on a raid volume that don't contain the pool only. Does it exist best practice to do this? Thanks Matteo

Re: [BackupPC-users] cloning the pool

2009-03-18 Thread stoffell
I want to clone the pool to a local disk attached via USB. I can't made it with a dd because the pool is on a raid volume that don't contain the pool only. We're about to do exactly the same thing. This to get ourselves a weekly off-site copy. We will use 500 GB external disks to rsync -aH the