On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 12:06:40AM -0500, Dan Pritts wrote:
> If I had that big a pool, I think I'd not be using a single
> backuppc instance, but that's just me. I'm guessing it works well
> for you, I'm glad it does.
We aren't; we have 6.
The *smallest* is about 4 TiB if disk, most of it in us
On Dec 7, 2010, at 2:44 PM, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 02:18:51PM -0500, Dan Pritts wrote:
>> umount /var/lib/backuppc
>> dd if=/dev/onedisk of=/dev/someotherdisk bs=1M
>
> Only works if you have identical disks, which is hard when you've
> got a few TiB on a SAN.
The disks
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 11:54:13AM +1100, Dale King wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 12:38:00AM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 07:58:05AM +, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 10:51 -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > > > IME it's *much* faster that wa
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 12:38:00AM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 07:58:05AM +, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 10:51 -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > > IME it's *much* faster that way; you do BackupPC_TarPCCopy, and
> > > then rsync the cpoll *witho
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 06:19:45PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 12/7/10 5:19 PM, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 14:18 -0500, Dan Pritts wrote:
> >> Not exactly an answer to your question, but i would do this:
> >>
> >> umount /var/lib/backuppc dd if=/dev/onedisk
> >> of=/dev/so
On 12/7/10 5:19 PM, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 14:18 -0500, Dan Pritts wrote:
>> Not exactly an answer to your question, but i would do this:
>>
>> umount /var/lib/backuppc
>> dd if=/dev/onedisk of=/dev/someotherdisk bs=1M
>
> Yes, that's a good way to copy the filesystem. But i
On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 14:18 -0500, Dan Pritts wrote:
> Not exactly an answer to your question, but i would do this:
>
> umount /var/lib/backuppc
> dd if=/dev/onedisk of=/dev/someotherdisk bs=1M
Yes, that's a good way to copy the filesystem. But if you want to move
the files to another filesystem,
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 02:18:51PM -0500, Dan Pritts wrote:
> umount /var/lib/backuppc
> dd if=/dev/onedisk of=/dev/someotherdisk bs=1M
Only works if you have identical disks, which is hard when you've
got a few TiB on a SAN.
> In practice, rsync -H is the reasonable way to do what you're
> after
On Dec 7, 2010, at 2:58 AM, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> So, if you wanted to copy the entire /var/lib/backuppc directory to
> another filesystem, what commands would you use, for example?
Not exactly an answer to your question, but i would do this:
umount /var/lib/backuppc
dd if=/dev/onedisk of=/dev
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 07:58:05AM +, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 10:51 -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > IME it's *much* faster that way; you do BackupPC_TarPCCopy, and
> > then rsync the cpoll *without -H*. It shouldn't take any longer
> > than the actual data transfer ti
On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 10:51 -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> IME it's *much* faster that way; you do BackupPC_TarPCCopy, and then
> rsync the cpoll *without -H*. It shouldn't take any longer than the
> actual data transfer time itself.
So, if you wanted to copy the entire /var/lib/backuppc direct
On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 01:27:17PM +0100, Oliver Freyd wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm a happy user of BackupPC since a few years,
> running an old installation of backuppc that was created
> on some version of SuSE linux, then ported over to debian lenny.
>
> The pool is a reiserfs3 on LVM, about 300GB
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