On 5/11/2011 2:04 PM, Rob Sheldon wrote:
>   On Wed, 11 May 2011 14:32:56 -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
>
>> How big was your pool and pc tree?
>
>   We currently have two BackupPC servers we work with -- one of them is
>   only about 20G of disk but is using a silly number of inodes (it's
>   backing up a maildir mail server, among other things), and I think the
>   other is around 3 or 4 TB of disk used at the moment. I don't remember
>   which one we had to move, it happened about a year ago. The best I can
>   recall is that we struggled with rsync for a week or so, then I found
>   out about tarpipes and that got the job done overnight.
>
>   You're right though, on second look, it looks like rsync -a should work
>   just as well as tar. I'll have to do another BackupPC pool transfer in a
>   few days, and now I'm curious what (if any) difference there is between
>   tar and rsync, so I'll try both.

That's 'rsync -aH'.  Hardlinks have enough of a performance impact that 
the option was intentionally omitted from the ones bundled into 'a'.

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