On 23/07/13 09:54, rblake3 wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to move data from a 2TB hard drive to a 3TB drive and am having
> space issues.  I am using:
>
> rsync -aHAXv --delete --progress /mnt/olddrive/ /mnt/newdrive/
>
> To copy the data from the old to the new.  I noticed that this process
> tanked so I ended up running it for individual folders under the specific
> directories... for example:
>
>      /mnt/olddrive/backup/pc/abccomputer/
> /mnt/newdrive/backup/pc/abccomputer/
>
> I have ran this process all weekend (I bash scripted it for all the folders)
> and then some and I came back to find that my entire hard drive is filled
> up.  I thought by using the “H” option, it would just keep the hardlink and
> not have the files in two locations.
>
> What am I missing?  What can I do to efficiently get the data copied from
> olddrive to newdrive without this problem?

Short answer is you need to copy the pool and the individual pc 
subdirectory on each invocation for rsync.

Regards,
Adam

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