[BackupPC-users] Copy backuppc to New Drive

[C L. M. <clm...@gm...>]

I've searched through the mailing list archives but couldn't find a
definitive answer. How the heck do you copy backuppc's data to a new
drive? All the hard links are making the usual tools almost useless.
My first try was with dump piped to restore. That failed about 18
hours into the process because restore ran out of memory. The next try
was with cp -a. That was working, but after 27 hours it had only
copied about 23GB out of the 133GB that I have to move. I then tried
rsync but it failed because of lack of resources also about 40 minutes
into the process. The 2 drives that I'm using are on separate IDE
buses and there is no other I/O on the system.

At this point I think I can safely and successfully dump the
filesystem to tape and restore from that, but I was hoping that there
would be a better way.

Any suggestions are welcome. Also, what was determined to be the best
filesystem to run backuppc on? I've always used ext3 but would gladly
change since I have the opportunity at this time.

Thanks for any help.

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C Lance Moxley
http://moxley.champaign.il.us:61821/