On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 13:27 +0100, Oliver Freyd wrote: > The pool is a reiserfs3 on LVM, about 300GB size, but with a lot of > hardlinks... > Now I'm trying to put the pool onto a new filesystem, so I created an > XFS on a striped RAID0 of 3 disks (to speed up copying), and use > rsync -aHv to copy everything including the hardlinks. > The cpool itself took about a day, and now it is running for 6 days and > maybe it has done 70% of the work. BTW, a copy with dd takes about 2 hours.
That span of time is about my experience. I estimated it would take 10 days to move my 1 TB ext3 filesystem to ext4 (with extents), with rsync. It takes 13 hours with dd over the gigabit LAN. Regards, Tyler -- "Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget." -- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love", by Robert A. Heinlein ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App & Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base & get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/