Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC v4 -- pool backups easier?

Steve,

Yes, that's one of the major advantages of 4.x - the pool is now much easier to copy or backup.

If you upgrade an existing 3.x installation then the hardlinks will still persist for the old backups (4.x is backward compatible - it knows how to view/restore 3.x backups). The 3.x backups will eventually expire, so the hardlink use will eventually go down.

In 4.1.0 there is a new utility BackupPC_migrateV3toV4 that you can optionally use to bulk upgrade old 3.x backups to v4 format. Although that might take a while, it allows you to eliminate all the old hardlinked backups.

Craig

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 9:16 AM, Steve Palm <n9yty AT n9yty DOT com> wrote:

Hi,

Simple question, I hope, but seeing the substantial differences "under the hood" on how BackupPC is handling things, no more hard links in particular, will this make it easier to backup the pool to other systems or tape? It seemed to me that one of the sticking points has always been the huge number of hard links.

I have tried a number of things, I think my last serious effort was suing an xfsdump, but the restore time was on the order of many days... :(

This would be a nice improvement. :)

Steve
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