On Wed, 11 May 2011 10:45:01 -0500, Michael Stowe wrote:
> Thought I'd mention that I'm in the process of moving my 1TB backup 
> pool
> from one jfs array to another on the same system.  Both arrays are 
> RAID-5
> via mdadm.
>
> I'm using "rsync -avP -H src dest," which I started Friday, nearly 
> five
> days ago.
>
> The data in cpool moved relatively quickly.  On the other hand, rsync 
> has
> been re-establishing hard links to the pc directories for quite a 
> while,
> and has quite a ways to go.  On the plus side, it's showing no signs 
> of
> stopping or running out of resources, so it looks like it will do the 
> job
> ... eventually.

 I had to do this a while back and, like you, found that rsync didn't 
 seem to work well. I ended up using a tarpipe instead, and that worked 
 great. I can't find my notes for the exact chant I used for it, but this 
 should be a good start: 
 
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-use-tar-command-through-network-over-ssh-session/

 I don't remember if I had to do this on our "little" BackupPC server or 
 on the big one, so I can't say what it's performance was like. I just 
 remember that it worked, and rsync did not.

 - R.

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