Les Mikesell wrote: >> I can see that I should save /etc/backuppc , >> but is it really necessary to save /var/lib/BackupPC/ ? >> This seems to be exactly what BackupPC has archived, >> and is almost the same size as the archive file >> (48GB archive file against 34GB /BackupPC in my case). > > I don't understand a differences in size when you say they are linked.
/BackupPC is linked to /var/lib/BackupPC ; the archive file is on my external disk: 48835580 -rw-r----- 1 backuppc backuppc 50007623015 Jun 7 03:54 helen.481.tar.gz >> (I have actually copied everything to another computer, >> but that was just so I can copy back to another disk.) > > Did you copy in a way that preserves the hard links within the archive? Yes, I started with "rsync -auvz" but found this was giving an enormously large copy, much larger than the original. So I changed to "rsync -auvzH" and now it is the same size. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev _______________________________________________ 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/
