On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 02:18:51PM -0500, Dan Pritts wrote:
> umount /var/lib/backuppc
> dd if=/dev/onedisk of=/dev/someotherdisk bs=1M

Only works if you have identical disks, which is hard when you've
got a few TiB on a SAN.

> In practice, rsync -H is the reasonable way to do what you're
> after, EXCEPT that there are just too many hard links on a
> backuppc data store for this to work. 

And there is a solution to this problem: BackupPC_tarPCCopy.

Please read my other post in this thread for full details.

-Robin

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