On 03/06 08:56 , cedric briner wrote: > > Yes it's possible. > > However, it's generally so much work > you mean human work ?
yes; tho if you're just copying a subset of the backed-up hosts, it ends up being a lot of computer work due to all the hardlinks. if you want to copy the entire backuppc data pool, this is a much more tractable problem. don't copy it at the file level; copy it at the filesystem level with dd+netcat, then grow the filesystem to the size of the new disk. (this is one more reason why /var/lib/backuppc _*really*_ should be a separate filesystem). dd will copy the data in time it takes to read all the bits off the disk; anything that operates at the file level (tar, rsync, cp) will take several times longer, because it ends up seeking all over the disk to follow the hardlinks. Your original question was about copying a subset of the hosts which have been backed up, tho. :) > what about this : > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#other_installation_topics > >> Copying the pool > it feels that this is the howto, I was looking for. Glad to hear it! -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
