brien dieterle wrote: > Are you using rsync -H, to preserve hard links? You may find it > unbearably memory/time/resource intensive to use rsync for this. > Since you are using lvm (assuming you have some unused space), you > could create a snapshot (lvcreate -s) and then dump the raw block > device over ssh (or nc). (dd if=/dev/lvm_vg/snapshot |gzip -1c |ssh > remote_host zcat | dd of=/dev/lvm_vg/backuppc_mirror). On a really > slow link bzip2 might be worth the cpu time, although since the pool > is already compresses you really just want to compress the empty space > on the volume (you may want to fill extra space with zeros > > brien > > krystian wrote: >> Hi! >> I have a small problem. >> My backuppc machine works without problem. My all machines have about >> 250 GB in backups (df -h). >> Now I want copy my backuppc to remote backup. I use rsync via ssh. >> But on my target machine backup takes more then 300GB and it is rising. >> Why is it like this? for both machine I use the same HDD >> configurations : LVM2+RAID1 with reiserfs. >> I think copy and original files should be in the same size. >> >> Thanks, >> Krystian >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> 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 >> BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users >> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ >> Thanks for fast answer :) my rsync command is: rsync -v -a -e 'ssh -l user_name -i /home/user_name/.ssh/id_rsa' --delete / 192.168.0.10:/backuppc I will check snapshots, but it is temporary solution as my machine can have max 500 GB. I prefer just copy from one machine to another. After first copy , next incremental shouldn't take to much bandwidth. I need correct settings for rsync so it will copy exact copy of backuppc directories.
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