Re: [BackupPC-users] Running to tape

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> I did a pretty simple 
> tar -cvf /dev/st0 /home/backuppc/data/pc/
> to kick the whole thing off. 

This doesn't dump the pool, conf and log directories.

> I know backuppc uses hard links to do some sort of bizarre magic to help
> keep disk usage down. Does this affect the way you're supposed to run all
> this stuff to tape? 
> 
> Does anyone know why this is taking so long and if there's anything
> special I need to do to back up all this backuppc stuff to tape?

Tar is clever about hardlinks, but it probably becomes very slow on
large file systems with lots of hardlinks.

Can you just use dump(1) on the /home/backuppc/data file system?

Craig