Hi, Pat Rice wrote on 2009-12-09 11:04:37 +0000 [[BackupPC-users] making a mirror image of the backup pc disk]: > [...] > What I would like to know, or if any on had any experience of: > Making a mirror or the backup disk:
well, yes, it is an FAQ, but in short: > Should I do a dd? Yes, in your situation definitely. > or would a copy be sufficient ? Maybe, but not certain. You don't want to take the chance. If your pool is reasonably sized, it will take longer (possibly by orders of magnitude; in fact, it might not complete before running out of resources) than a 'dd'. Only a small pool on a large disk would be faster to cp/rsync/tar/... than to dd. > or will I have to worry about hard links that need to be kept ? Yes. Regards, Holger ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev _______________________________________________ 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/
