[BackupPC-users] How to move to a new remove server?

Hello everyone.

I'm joining the list for the first time in attempts to figure out a problem I cannot find a solution for no matter what keywords I have searched for...

I have 2 servers at a hosting company; an old one having a long and large pool of BackupPC data on it. The new one is replacing the old one.

The hard drive cannot be removed from the old server and added to the new one. It simply needs to be copied from one location to the other via the internal GB network (no backup tapes or CD's or anything else, strictly network copy only).

My question is, How?

I have used Rsync with archive and preserve hard link mode but I still get duplicate files and run out of space on the new server, when the new server has more space available than the old. I've also mounted the new location on the old server and followed the instructions to use the BackupPC_tarPCCopy but this does not preserve hardlinks across hard drives either.

How do I (we) correctly copy the entire pool (and any other important information) to a new server?

Installation Specifics are:

Program directory: /BackupPC

Data directory: /BackuipPC/data

Config directory: /etc/BackupPC/

Logging directory: /var/logs/BackupPC

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