On 11/11 07:48 , Les Mikesell wrote: > In theory 'rsync -aH' could copy the archive area, but it will likely be > too slow to be practical due to all the hardlinks.
there's also the issue of rsync's memory consumption, which can be pretty bad on a big tree of hardlinked files. On a machine with 512MB RAM, rsync ran it out of memory and brought it to a grinding halt when trying to sync 100GB of backuppc pool from one drive to another (installing a new array). -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
