BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Transfert BackupPC to an other machine (How ?)

2008-05-07 17:11:38
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Transfert BackupPC to an other machine (How ?)
From: Sam Przyswa <samp AT arial-concept DOT com>
To: "Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)" <nils AT lemonbit DOT nl>
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 23:11:12 +0200
Le mercredi 07 mai 2008 à 23:01 +0200, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) a
écrit :
> Sam Przyswa wrote:
> 
> > We have to change our BackupPC server to a new machine, how to copy the
> > entire BackupPC directory (120Gb) to an other machine ?
> > 
> > I tried rsync, it crash after a long, long time, I tried scp but it
> > don't pass the link and the dest directory become out of size after
> > transferring about 50% of files...
> > 
> > What is the right way to transfert a BackupPC with 120Gb of files ?
> 
> An often suggested method is using dd and growing the filesystem 
> afterwards. This will probably be a lot faster as dd doesn't need to 
> know anything about the file structure and things like hardlinks.

Yes but the the machines are on Internet not on your office, we have to
do that over the net. I never do a dd over ssh !?

Sam.





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