On 06/12/13 09:18, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> On 12/05 06:22 , absolutely_free AT libero DOT it wrote:
>> My question is: can I simply copy /var/lib/backuppc content to a new storage?
> If you mean to do this, use 'dd'. Any file-level copying mechanism will be
> deathly slow due to having to follow all the hardlinks. It might take 4
> hours to do with DD what would take a week with tar or cp.
>
>> What would happen if some files from the old storage are not copied? BackupPC
>> can be automatically aware of this and do a full backup of those files?
> I think BackupPC will handle this gracefully when the hash for the file is
> looked up in the pool. If the hash for the file is not found, a new entry
> will be created.
>
I think this setting might also be relevant:
$Conf{RsyncCsumCacheVerifyProb} = '0.01';

Presuming you use rsync with checksum caching. Without looking into too 
much detail, I would probably change that to 1.0 and then run two full 
backups.... just to be make myself feel better, and then change it back 
to 0.01.

Regards,
Adam

-- 
Adam Goryachev Website Managers www.websitemanagers.com.au

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK 
Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base.
Download it for free now!
http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk
_______________________________________________
BackupPC-users mailing list
BackupPC-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
List:    https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users
Wiki:    http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net
Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/