On 11/11/05, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
would dd'ing to a identically sized partition on the USB/external HD work/be faster?
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).
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Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com
would dd'ing to a identically sized partition on the USB/external HD work/be faster?
