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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).

By far the best method is with dd, or dd_rescue (which adds errror
recovery and progress information). The method I followed recently was
dd from the old drive to the new array, followed by fdisk to delete the
partition and re-create (with identical starting position) to take up
the full disk, followed by a filesystem resize. This has worked quite
well for me and certainly solves the issue of the hard links etc...

Regards,
Adam

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Adam Goryachev
Website Managers
www.websitemanagers.com.au
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