Jim Leonard wrote at about 23:53:13 -0500 on Monday, August 31, 2009:
 > 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.

OK - can you show me where in the documentation it mentions the issue
with copying/moving BackupPC data and hence the recommendation for
using a separate fs just for BackupPC? I certainly wouldn't have
intuited this issue from a generic mention about careful "planning".

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