[BackupPC-users] Re: offsite archives

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Ryan Jewell wrote:

> To benefit from rsync I'm also thinking about just sending the backuppc
> data in /var/lib/backuppc.

Copying /var/lib/backuppc with rsync will probably not work since rsync 
requires a lot of memory when copying hard links.

I use the logical volume manager to create a snapshot of the file system 
mounted on /var/lib/backuppc. Then the file system snapshot is copied 
with dd. Unfortunately, copying data with dd means that the whole file 
system must be copied every time the cron job is run.