Re: [BackupPC-users] moving a volume
2008-11-16 16:39:15
Veon wrote:
> Ray Todd Stevens wrote:
>> We have a backuppc system setup that has been running for a while
>> now. We are
>> expanding the office and I am going to need more storage space. To
>> do this I will need to
>> copy the data off, reconfigure the array with more drives and then
>> reload the system.
>>
>> How is the best way to do this?
> Hi,
> cp -a is the best way imho.
> I moved a storage fs few days ago without problems.
> Hope this help. (and sorry for my english).
It depends on the size of your pool. A lot of hardlinks can make cp -a
take a very, very long time. In that case it is probably a lot faster
to use dd to copy the filesystem over and grow the filesystem
afterwards.
Nils Breunese.
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