Copying a large file system (again)

[Desai, Jason]

> I need to copy the whole /backup/backuppc directory structure in one
> pass so that hardlinks are preserved. Or I'd need some tool 
> which could
> preserve the hardlinks another way.

http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#other_installation_top
ics

The section on Copying the Pool may help, specifically using
BackupPC_tarPCCopy.  If that does not work, you may be able to copy the
pool over first, then do the hosts one at a time and try to manually run
BackupPC_link.

Hope this helps.

Jase