I've been investigating how to backup BackupPC's filesystem, specifically the tree with all the hard links (BTW what's the right name for it, the one that's not the pool?)
The goal is to be able to bring a verified-good copy of the whole volume off-site via a big cahuna sata drive. I don't have enough RAM (or time!) for rsync -H and cp -a I was originally looking at block-level partition imaging tools, from mdmraid (RAID1'ing to a removable drive) to dd to Acronis. I'm also looking at BackupPC_tarPCCopy, which seems great, but What I'm really looking for is to be able to just mount the resulting filesystem on any ol' livecd, without having to restore anything, reconstruct LVM/RAID etc complexities just to get at the data - the source volume is an LV running on a RAID6 array, but I want the target partition to be a normal one. I've come across this tool: http://www.fsarchiver.org/Main_Page Does anyone have experience with it? Any and all feedback/suggestions welcome. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: WikiLeaks The End of the Free Internet http://p.sf.net/sfu/therealnews-com _______________________________________________ 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/
