Hendrik Friedel wrote:

> This takes ages, which is ok, but I'm logged in to the server via  
> ssh, so
> that using the nohup command would be useful. This has the drawback,  
> that
> the nohup.out is empty, so that I cannot monitor the process.

Install screen and see 'man screen'. Other than that I believe the  
general advice for moving your BackupPC data is to use dd and  
filesystem resize tools instead of programs that operate on files and  
links, which - as you are experiencing - can take forever.

Nils Breunese.

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