RE: [BackupPC-users] replicating backup servers offsite

[Kenn H. <ke...@bl...>]

> Is there a different way to do the pooling without the extreemly large 
> number of hardlinks? That seems to be the main reason why alot of the 
> replication takes so long, it's not the data size, it's having to follow 
> the many many hardlinks.

How about this approach for rsync-ing the backuppc pools?

1. rsync _only_ the pool and cpool directories.
2. For each PC directory, rsync pool+cpool+pcdir (i.e. one
   PC dir at a time).

Step 1 will copy all the data, but won't have to deal with
lots of hard links.

Step 2 will copy no data, and will only have to deal with
one PC-directory's worth of hard links.

Rsyncing 2 or more PC directories in each pass of step 2
might be better.  There is probably some sweet spot that
will depend on the number of links in each PC directory
and the amount of memory and CPU available to rsync.

I can't test this right now, as I don't have enough spare
diskspace anywhere to make a copy of my pool.  But it 
seems to be like it would be worth a try.

Later,
Kenn