Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
>> Is there a problem with my approach?
>
> The problem with rsync'ing a backuppc data pool is the sheer number of
> files. you'll run your machine out of space with the lists as they get
> loaded into memory.
>
> up to a certain point it will work; and with newer versions of rsync it will
> work better; but it is not a scaleable solution.
More specifically it is the number of hardlinks that most file-oriented
copying methods have to track by keeping tables of inode numbers in
memory and matching them up - and the fact that to work, the entire tree
containing pool/cpool/pc directories must be processed at once.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikes...@gmail.com
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