Re: [BackupPC-users] Don't use rsync -H!! (was Re: copying the pool to a new filesystem?!)

[Tyler J. W. <ty...@to...>]

On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 14:18 -0500, Dan Pritts wrote:
> Not exactly an answer to your question, but i would do this:
> 
> umount /var/lib/backuppc
> dd if=/dev/onedisk of=/dev/someotherdisk bs=1M

Yes, that's a good way to copy the filesystem. But if you want to move
the files to another filesystem, such as to upgrade to ext4 with
extents, you need another method.

Regards,
Tyler

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