On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 2:53 PM, gregwm <backuppc-users AT whitleymott DOT net> 
wrote:
>> I'm archiving the BackupPC backup folder (/var/lib/BackupPC) folder to
>> external disk with rsync.
>>
>> However, it looks like rsync is filling the links?
>>
>> My total disk usage on the backup server is 407g, and the space used on
>> the external drive is up to 726g.
>>
>> (using rsync -avh --delete --quiet /var/lib/BackupPC /usbmount/backuppc)
>
> you want rsync -H
> i've used rsync -qPHSa with some success.  however, if you have lots of
> links, and not terribly much memory, rsync gobbles memory in proportion to
> how many hardlinks it's trying to match up.  so, ironically, i use
> storebackup to make an offsite copy of my backuppc volume.

Isn't that what BackupPC_ArchiveHost is for? Or do you need to keep
the files individually accessible?

Richard

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