Copying a large file system (again)

[Tino Schwarze]

Hi there,

it's me again with my 600 GB BackupPC files (9 million files, 15
million directories, loads of hardlinks).

I tried copying everything with star via netcat to another machine (with
a new shiny xfs filesystem). It's been running for about 48 hours now
and about 450 GB have been copied. So far so well, but star is using
over 900 meg memory now, the machine only has a gig and it just started
swapping, so the job could take ages.

Is there a way to transport hardlink information across multiple TAR
archives? Or should I rather try to get another GB from somewhere and
start over from scratch? Would GNU tar perform better? Shall I try
csync2?

Thanks,

Tino.

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