Re: [BackupPC-users] Transfert BackupPC to an other machine (How ?)

[Sam P. <sa...@ar...>]

Le jeudi 08 mai 2008 à 15:05 +0200, Tino Schwarze a écrit :
> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 02:35:50PM +0200, Sam Przyswa wrote:
> 
> > > > > > We have to change our BackupPC server to a new machine, how to copy the
> > > > > > entire BackupPC directory (120Gb) to an other machine ?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I tried rsync, it crash after a long, long time, I tried scp but it
> > > > > > don't pass the link and the dest directory become out of size after
> > > > > > transferring about 50% of files...
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > What is the right way to transfert a BackupPC with 120Gb of files ?
> > > > > 
> > > > > An often suggested method is using dd and growing the filesystem 
> > > > > afterwards. This will probably be a lot faster as dd doesn't need to 
> > > > > know anything about the file structure and things like hardlinks.
> > > > 
> > > > Yes but the the machines are on Internet not on your office, we have to
> > > > do that over the net. I never do a dd over ssh !?
> > > 
> > > It would work like this:
> > > 
> > > oldserver# dd if=/dev/backuppc-filesystem bs=1M | ssh -c blowfish -C -o CompressionLevel=9 newserver "dd of=/de/newfilesystem bs=1M"


It was the right way to copy the filesystem.

Thanks a lot !

Sam.