Veon wrote:

> Ray Todd Stevens wrote:
>> We have a backuppc system setup that has been running for a while  
>> now.   We are
>> expanding the office and I am going to need more storage space.  To  
>> do this I will need to
>> copy the data off, reconfigure the array with more drives and then  
>> reload the system.
>>
>> How is the best way to do this?
> Hi,
> cp -a  is the best way imho.
> I moved a storage fs few days ago without problems.
> Hope this help. (and sorry for my english).

It depends on the size of your pool. A lot of hardlinks can make cp -a  
take a very, very long time. In that case it is probably a lot faster  
to use dd to copy the filesystem over and grow the filesystem  
afterwards.

Nils Breunese.

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