On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 10:45:53AM -0500, Gerald Brandt wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I need to copy the data store over to a whole new computer, and I can't put 
> the old harddrive into the new system. 
> 
> I was thinking of using rsync with hardlinks over ssh to copy the data. 
> 
> 1. Will that work ? 
> 2. I'm not sure I know the command format to get it done. 

I used :

rsync -avPHx /var/lib/backuppc/. /mnt/biggerdisk/backuppc

It behaves the same rermotely as locally so:

rsync -avPHx /var/lib/backuppc/. newmachine:/mnt/biggerdisk/backuppc

the /. is important

Wayne

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Wayne Walker
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Solid Constructs, LLC

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