From: Tino S. <bac...@ti...> - 2009-12-07 10:15:51
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On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 06:06:32PM -0500, Alan McKay wrote: > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Johan Cwiklinski <mai...@x-...> wrote: > > If you've used the official RPM from Fedora, all configuration files are > > under /etc/BackuPC. This path and /var/lib/BackupPC (were stands your > > backups) are normally the only ones you have to care about. > > Sorry for the thread necromancy but I'm soon looking at doing the same > thing and was wondering what is the proper way to copy the data > accross to account for the hard links in the data de-duplication. > > My disk is getting full so I want to upgrade to a bigger one. Thats one of the FAQs... I'll try to summarize the current consensus: If your pool is small (e.g. not too many files/links), rsync might work but will take very long. The easiest approach is to copy the whole block device containing the file system, then resize to the target device's size. HTH, Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.tisc.de |