Re: [BackupPC-users] Copying BackupPC to tape for off-site storage

Subject:	Re: [BackupPC-users] Copying BackupPC to tape for off-site storage - very slow
From:	Sean Carolan <scarolan AT gmail DOT com>
To:	"General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date:	Tue, 2 Mar 2010 13:42:12 -0600

>> Would this go faster if I unmounted the partition and tried to do a
>> block-level copy of the entire thing?  How would you handle this?

In case anyone else runs into this in the future, Bacula does support
block-level backups.  I'm running one now and it's much faster than
trying to do a file-level backup of the entire BackupPC partition.

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