On 12/20/05, Jon Scottorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have everything running good with my backup system, but now I want to rsync > all or > /var/lib/backuppc to an external hard drive for an offsite backup. > When I run the rsync, everything syncs fine except the cpool directory. If > I do a du on > /var/lib/backuppc/cpool it's size is 3.8 GB. If I do it on me external > device, the size is 104 > GB. So I keep running out of disk space on my external drive. How do I keep > the sizes the > same?
cpool uses hardlinks. rsync by default does not preserve hardlinks which is why the copy you make explodes in size. If you specify -H to rsync, it will preserve hard-links, but expect it to take a LONG time. More common backup methods is to use a RAID1 array for the backup pool, when you want to make a backup, insert a drive and let the RAID sync up the backup drive. Another method is to backup the raw partition image. -Dave ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
