On February 3, 2018 9:27:40 PM UTC, Adam Pribyl <pri...@lowlevel.cz> wrote:
>On Sat, 3 Feb 2018, Les Mikesell wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 5:50 AM, Adam Pribyl <pri...@lowlevel.cz>
>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 identical UUID's if you
>> have both drives connected when you reboot, though.
>
>Yep, the problem is, it's live filesystem in /var mount and I'd need
>another day offline. I ended up using LVM pvmove instead of copy of
>/var/lib/backuppc only. This is not exacly what I want, but it was
>already
>too long without backup to spend more time copying. Maybe LVM mirror
>could
>be used too... anyway, this is a lesson, that copying filesystem via
>files
>could become impossible, which is quite interesting.
>
>> --
>> Les Mikesell
>
>
>Adam Pribyl
>
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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.
Raoul
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