Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> it seems that many
> people (myself included) initially set up their BackupPC topdir on a
> filesystem containing mixed data and without the advantage of things
> like LVM or ZFS since they don't realize in advance how hard it is to
> copy/move/resize the topdir area due to the large number of
> hard-links. It seems to me that new users should be strongly advised
> to create topdir on a separate ("dedicated") filesystem on top of LVM,
> ZFS, RAID, etc. to maximize flexibility. Alternatively, we can
> continue to address this same issue every week ;)

I read the docs before setting it up and it was very obvious to me that 
planning was required.  Then again, I've been doing this for a while. 
But it *was* in the documentation, if not in-your-face explicit.
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