Copying a large file system (again)

[Tino Schwarze]

On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 02:08:17PM -0500, Desai, Jason wrote:

> > 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_topics
> 
> 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.

Oh well, that should do the trick. I'll try copying the pool first, then
use BackupPC_tarPCCopy to get a tar with almost only hardlinks in it,
pointing to the pool I've already copied.

Thanks for the pointer,

Tino.

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