13,849 items, totalling 3.8 GB

It would appear that I have a feasible number of files. I'm not sure how
many more files I will have by the end of April, though.

I've read about that "rsync -H" would be a practical command to use on the
backuppc folder.

What I'm also curious about is if I should be rsyncing any other files, thus
allowing me to restore from the offsite backup in the case I lose everything
and rebuild a backuppc configuration: I would attempt to rsync back to my
computer with the new backuppc configuration and attempt to restore/recover
said files.

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <
chr...@real-time.com> wrote:

> On 02/21 11:00 , Dennis Blewett wrote:
> > Will I come across many problems in later restoring the pool's data if I
> > just rsync /var/lib/backuppc to the server?
> > Are there other files and folders I should be rsync'ing to the server?
>
> rsync'ing the BackupPC data pool is generally recommended against. The
> number of hardlinks causes an explosive growth in memory consumption by
> rsync and while you may be able to get away with it if you have 20GB of
> data (depending on how much memory you have); you will likely run out of
> memory when your amount of data gets larger.
>
> future versions of backuppc may deal with this problem better.
>
> There are ways of replicating the backuppc data pool remotely; but I have
> not tried them myself.
>
> --
> Carl Soderstrom
> Systems Administrator
> Real-Time Enterprises
> www.real-time.com
>
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