Sam Przyswa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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 ?
>   

Using "dd" and "netcat".

http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/19486.html

Run it over a ssh tunnel if you can't trust the network.

> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Sam.
>   

Chris

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