On May 23, 2012, at 11:58 AM, "Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom"

<chrome AT real-time DOT com> wrote:

> On 05/22 08:18 , ad^2 wrote:
> > >From what I have read even though tar supports a hardlink option it
> > will not do the trick with BackupPC. Have you use tar to copy the
> > __TOPDIR__/pc directory?
>
> Yes. Works fine using 'cd /var/lib/backuppc/; tar cpf - | nc
> targethost.domain.tld 8888' (and obviously having a receiving netcat on
the
> opposite side).

Just out of curiosity, what is the advantage of using tar in this fashion
rather than, say, copying over the data partition at the block level? If
you need more space, you could then grow the file system.

Obviously, if there's something you don't like about the old filesystem,
tar would work out better (such as changing filesystem type or something).
But I'm wondering if there is some other reason that I might be missing.

Timothy J. Massey
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