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Re: [BackupPC-users] Moving the Pool
2011-05-11 14:49:13
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> wrote on 05/11/2011
01:18:45 PM:
> On 5/11/2011 10:45 AM, Michael Stowe wrote:
> >
> > Thought I'd mention that I'm in the process of moving my 1TB
backup pool
> > from one jfs array to another on the same system. Both
arrays are RAID-5
> > via mdadm.
> >
> > I'm using "rsync -avP -H src dest," which I started
Friday, nearly five
> > days ago.
>
> I doubt if most people want to go a week without running backups,
and if
> your source changes after mapping the inodes for hardlinks you are
going
> to have a problem. It might be interesting to compare this
to a dd or
> partclone image copy of the partition as long as you are going to
the
> same filesystem type and have an equal or larger amount of space on
the
> target (you should be able to resize larger after a copy).
That would have been my strong suggestion: do
a dd of the JFS partition and resize when done. (Does parted understand
JFS? Use that if it does: it'll be even faster.)
Given a pretty pedestrian 30MB/s transfer rate you're
talking 10 hours to complete the copy. Like Les said: I can't
imagine being able to take a production backup server down for a *week*,
and if it's not a production server then you probably aren't copying the
pool! :)
Timothy J. Massey
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