Author: "absolutely_free AT libero DOT it" <absolutely_free AT libero DOT it>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 18:22:27 +0100 (CET)
Hi, we had problems on our backup storage. I think I'll be able to access some data, anyway. Now I'm going to restore BackupPC on new storage. My question is: can I simply copy /var/lib/backuppc cont
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 16:17:52 -0600
If the archive is very large it is generally not practical to copy it with file-oriented programs (rsync -H, tar, etc.) because reconstructing the hardlinks to the pool is slow and inefficient. You m
Author: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome AT real-time DOT com>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 17:18:15 -0500
If you mean to do this, use 'dd'. Any file-level copying mechanism will be deathly slow due to having to follow all the hardlinks. It might take 4 hours to do with DD what would take a week with tar
Author: Adam Goryachev <mailinglists AT websitemanagers.com DOT au>
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2013 09:25:20 +1100
I think this setting might also be relevant: $Conf{RsyncCsumCacheVerifyProb} = '0.01'; Presuming you use rsync with checksum caching. Without looking into too much detail, I would probably change tha