Thanks, Tim,

The problem with this approach is that the old backup server is still
running reiser3 (built before it got long in the tooth) and the new
one is running ext4...So I have to do it the hard way...

--b

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Tim Fletcher <tim AT night-shade.org DOT uk> 
wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-02-24 at 14:57 -0500, Brad Alexander wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I'm running into a problem migrating my /var/lib/backuppc pc
>> directory. I got cpool, log, pool, tmp, and trash migrated via rsync,
>> and I am attempting to migrate the pc directory.
>
> It's seriously much easier to copy the raw filesystem, with dd and ssh
> or netcat.
>
> something like:
>
> dd if=/dev/filesystem bs=1M | ssh -C farragut dd of=/dev/newfilesystem
>
> If you are on the same network it might well be faster to use netcat.
>
> --
> Tim Fletcher <tim AT night-shade.org DOT uk>
>
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