On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 23:20 -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 11:55:41AM -0400, Dan Pritts wrote:
> > One concern I've always had with backuppc is what would happen if
> > i had a disaster and had to restore everything from backuppc.  
> > 
> > It would take absolutely forever to do this, because backuppc has
> > to seek the disks so much (due to the effects of all those hard
> > links).
> 
> I don't know of anything that would be faster, though.

In fact, BackupPC only has to make two seeks for each file - once for
the metadata, and once for the file itself (the hard link). Hard links
do not increase the number of disk seeks. You think that because the
BackupPC_link and nightly processes are so intensive, but that's a
different problem.

I've done bare metal restores. They are almost as fast as rsync from a
native copy.

Tyler

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