On Thursday 20 May 2010 14:17:46 Sylvain Viart - Gmail wrote:
> Now I simply rsync the full backuppc primary tree to the secondary
> server, including config an all.
> 
> That way I can swap to a copy instance on my secondary backup server.
> for 230Gb backupp the initial rsync took ~53h and the next diff only ~3h

You may find rsync gets too slow because of the hardlinks in the pool. Consider 
using LVM and a bitwise copy of a snapshot. You won't have to stop the backup 
at all.

http://www.tolaris.com/2010/04/23/using-lvm-to-make-a-live-copy-of-a-backuppc-
pool/

Tyler

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