Correct. As I mentioned in the original post.

The volume had about 1TB of other data. A block level copy would have
taken to long.



On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Trey Dockendorf <treydock AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT com>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
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> My guess is the backup directory was not on it's own LVM or mount point so a
> block level copy would grab more than just the topdir.  In my case I was
> going from xfs to ext4 so the tar method was required.
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