On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 06:19:45PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 12/7/10 5:19 PM, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 14:18 -0500, Dan Pritts wrote:
> >> Not exactly an answer to your question, but i would do this:
> >>
> >> umount /var/lib/backuppc dd if=/dev/onedisk
> >> of=/dev/someotherdisk bs=1M
> >
> > Yes, that's a good way to copy the filesystem. But if you want
> > to move the files to another filesystem, such as to upgrade to
> > ext4 with extents, you need another method.
> 
> Or just start over, keeping the old instance around until the new
> one builds a reasonable amount of history.

Yeah, I've done that as well.

-Robin

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