On Wednesday 21 April 2010 06:03:08 Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> I am currently in the process of doing this in two steps:
> 
> 1. Moving the cpool to a partition with LVM, so as to be able to make
>  snapshot binary backups in future.
> 
> 2. Copying the snapshot over the network to a backup server.
> 
> I'll blog it soon and post here.  In short, the fastest way to duplicate
>  your pool is: dd if=/dev/partition1 of=/dev/partition2

As promised, how to use LVM to clone a BackupPC pool.

http://www.tolaris.com/2010/04/23/using-lvm-to-make-a-live-copy-of-a-backuppc-
pool/

Regards,
Tyler

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and intelligence analysts that told us this was a good idea, that we
had to do it.  That presented their information, and were so terribly
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considered experts.  I'm sorry, shouldn't there be a rule or law that
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