Copying a large file system (again)

[RB]

> 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?

Why not try rsync?  Granted, the calling system's resources will be
pretty heavily utilized, but all it really requires is SSH on one side
or the other.  If you're conserving hardlinks, your command would be
something along the lines of:

rsync -PaH /backup/directory root at remote-host:/destination

I've never done a sync of your specific size before, you may also want
to look into the '-W' option if you have very large files.  Failing
that, if your source is an XFS tree, look at xfsdump.

Interesting ML posts:
http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2003-August/006853.html
http://osdir.com/ml/network.rsync.general/2003-12/msg00186.html