On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:20:46AM +0100, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: > It is generally believed on this list (I believe) that it's not > feasible to use something as 'high-level' as rsync to replicate > BackupPC's pool. The amount of memory needed by rsync will just > explode because of all the hardlinks. Usually people have been > using low-level tools like dd or dump to copy a complete pool > filesystem to another one.
Then this list believes wrongly; I've had no problems doing it at all, for some weeks now. It's the getting it encrypted part that's tricky. rsync has to think for a while, but it works, and I've never noticed any memory problems on that machine. The machine does have 2GiB of RAM, however. -Robin -- Lojban Reason #17: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
