Re: [BackupPC-users] Copying BackupPC tree

[Scott H. <ha...@ne...>]

This might have been a good case for dd or partimage, then growing the 
partition with resize2fs or resize_reiserfs to use the additional space.

Even better would have been lvm and using pvmove to move the sectors to 
the new drive, even while backuppc is still running. I did this to move 
from an IDE disk to RAID when my test install went into production. But 
your original volume has to already be in lvm for this to work.

Scott

Leon Letto wrote:
> I did this with cp -a on a 140GB backuppc Store and it took a week so don't
> expect it to be fast.  If you have used ext3, you should be able to use dd
> to dump your partition to another (hopefully bigger) hard disk/RAID.  This
> should be at least an order of magnitude faster.
> 
> Leon 
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