Re: [BackupPC-users] Best way to copy backuppc data

On 02/06 08:51 , Adam Pribyl wrote: > On Mon, 5 Feb 2018, Carl W. Soderstrom wrote: > > > On 02/04 07:48 , Raoul Bhatia wrote: > > > What's the issue with using LVM? Unless you need to reinitialize > > > the whole fs, i.e. increase EXT4 inode count or switch to another > > > fs, believe this is

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best way to copy backuppc data

On 02/04 07:48 , Raoul Bhatia wrote: > What's the issue with using LVM? Unless you need to reinitialize the whole > fs, i.e. increase EXT4 inode count or switch to another fs, believe this is a > perfect example of where LVM shines. I'd like to insert a word of caution based on experience. I

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best way to copy backuppc data

tar -C /var/lib/backuppc --one-filesystem --acls --xattrs -cf - . | tar -C /copy -xvf - How does this deal with hardlinks? Just to answer this question - this is how GNU tar handles hard links: https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/hard-links.html --- Markus A. Iturriaga

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best way to copy backuppc data

On 02/03 10:30 , Les Mikesell wrote: > On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 5:50 AM, Adam Pribyl wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Feb 2018, Iturriaga Woelfel, Markus wrote: > > > > > > I am running short on ideas how to copy this. > > If you are copying to an identical disk you can use dd on the raw >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best way to copy backuppc data

On February 3, 2018 9:27:40 PM UTC, Adam Pribyl wrote: >On Sat, 3 Feb 2018, Les Mikesell wrote: > >> On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 5:50 AM, Adam Pribyl >wrote: >>> On Fri, 2 Feb 2018, Iturriaga Woelfel, Markus wrote: >>> >>> >>> I am running short on ideas how to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best way to copy backuppc data

On Sat, 3 Feb 2018, Les Mikesell wrote: On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 5:50 AM, Adam Pribyl wrote: On Fri, 2 Feb 2018, Iturriaga Woelfel, Markus wrote: I am running short on ideas how to copy this. If you are copying to an identical disk you can use dd on the raw devices.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best way to copy backuppc data

On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 5:50 AM, Adam Pribyl wrote: > On Fri, 2 Feb 2018, Iturriaga Woelfel, Markus wrote: > > > I am running short on ideas how to copy this. If you are copying to an identical disk you can use dd on the raw devices.The system may be confused by the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best way to copy backuppc data

Hi, Adam Pribyl wrote on 2018-02-02 08:09:47 +0100 [[BackupPC-users] Best way to copy backuppc data]: > What is to best way to copy the BackupPC data? > [...] > Still its taking somewhat too long... should I use a different method? BackupPC_copyPool ... I'll send it to you on Mond

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best way to copy backuppc data

On 2/3/2018 2:50 PM, Adam Pribyl wrote: On Fri, 2 Feb 2018, Iturriaga Woelfel, Markus wrote: I tried the "dump | restore" way, dump -0 -f - /var/lib/backuppc | restore -r -f - after few minutes: restore: cannot write to file /tmp//rstdir1517604355: No space left on device   DUMP: Broken

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best way to copy backuppc data

On Fri, 2 Feb 2018, Iturriaga Woelfel, Markus wrote: I used rsync to copy data including hard links: rsync -avxHAX --progress /var/lib/backuppc /copy Because of all the hard links, rsync gets incredibly slow and uses a huge amount of space in /tmp when trying to copy BackupPC (v.3) Yes

[BackupPC-users] Best way to copy backuppc data

What is to best way to copy the BackupPC data? I used rsync to copy data including hard links: rsync -avxHAX --progress /var/lib/backuppc /copy on 200G backup data - it is running for 4 days, transfered 188G of 200G and now spending whole day on copying the cpool hashes (probably hard