Boniforti Flavio wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> there is a regular discussion on how to backup/move/copy the 
>> backuppc pool. Did anyone try to backup the pool with bacula?
> 
> Hello there...
> 
> I don't know about bacula, but would like myself also to get a backup of
> the BackupPC server: anybody got some suggestions and practical
> examples?

I think the only way to do it at a reasonable speed is to unmount the 
partition where the archive is stored and image-copy it to an 
equal-sized partition.  Or, if you created it as a RAID1 with a missing 
mirror, you can add/sync a mirror while mounted - but you still won't 
have any performance if you try to do anything else for the duration of 
the copy and you need to unmount momentarily to get a clean filesystem 
as you fail/remove the mirror.

Some people are copying smaller archives with rsync (-aH), and the 
newest version of rsync is supposed to handle the hardlinks more 
efficiently.  You can always try that and see how long it takes.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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