Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

>> Is there a problem with my approach?
> 
> The problem with rsync'ing a backuppc data pool is the sheer number of
> files. you'll run your machine out of space with the lists as they get
> loaded into memory.
> 
> up to a certain point it will work; and with newer versions of rsync it will
> work better; but it is not a scaleable solution.

More specifically it is the number of hardlinks that most file-oriented 
copying methods have to track by keeping tables of inode numbers in 
memory and matching them up - and the fact that to work, the entire tree 
containing pool/cpool/pc directories must be processed at once.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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