On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 15:25 -0600, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > dd bypasses those memory problems. if you want to move it across the > network, pipe it through netcat. I moved 200GB of backuppc pool across the > network that way in about 12 hours. once on the new box, I just used the > reiserfs resize utility to make the filesystem large enough to take > advantage of all the space.
dd is most probably the only efficient way to copy a backuppc pool to another device. Anything else is just too slow. Having said that, has anyone tried it on a 500 GB + pool? How about 1 TB? Just curious... Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 i686 GNU/Linux 23:36:17 up 4 days, 15:31, 1 user, load average: 0.79, 0.70, 0.63 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
