On Thursday 20 May 2010 14:17:46 Sylvain Viart - Gmail wrote: > Now I simply rsync the full backuppc primary tree to the secondary > server, including config an all. > > That way I can swap to a copy instance on my secondary backup server. > for 230Gb backupp the initial rsync took ~53h and the next diff only ~3h
You may find rsync gets too slow because of the hardlinks in the pool. Consider using LVM and a bitwise copy of a snapshot. You won't have to stop the backup at all. http://www.tolaris.com/2010/04/23/using-lvm-to-make-a-live-copy-of-a-backuppc- pool/ Tyler -- "There are ... two sorts of businesses regarding Open Source use: ones whose management is aware of how much they depend on Open Source, and the ones where the boss doesn't know yet." -- Bruce Perens ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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/
