-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup backuppc From: Les Mikesell <[email protected]> To: General list for user discussion, questions and support <[email protected]> Date: Wed Aug 18 2010 14:31:46 GMT+0200 (ora Legale Europa Occidentale) > If your archive is small and you have plenty of RAM you may be able to do it > with rsync -aH, but there is a limit to what you can copy in a reasonable > amount > of time because there is not an efficient way to re-create the hardlinks. If > the removable drive is as large as the disk or partition containing the > archive, > you may be able to use an image copy of the raw device instead with the > source > partition unmounted. In any case you'll need a similarly-configured backuppc > installation to mount it into for the restore so be sure you have copies of > wherever your installtion puts them. I am tempted to dump with "dd" or tar the whole _TOPDIR_ to a file, but I am not an old-time user of hardlinks and I don't know if this will do the trick, especially when restoring the dump.
BTW, I tried yesterday to move (with rsync -a) my cpool (about 150GB) to an internal SATA disk from a USB device and it took almost 12 hours, maybe because there were a lot of files (12mln!). I will try to rsync -aH the _TOPDIR_ to another external USB disk (my disaster recovery device); I expect the first transfer will take too much but next ones should be shorter (due to the benefits oh having a pool). I will also try the archive feature, maybe it will be my winning bet. Thanks. Alessandro
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