On 02/07 10:33 , Robin Lee Powell wrote: > Y'all have made it clear that rsync -H doesn't work too well with > backuppc archives; what about cpio? Does it do a decent job of > preserving hard links without consuming all your RAM?
probably works fine; if you can take the time to transfer all the data. dd is definitely the fastest way to go; because it doesn't follow all the hardlinks. it's several times faster than tar or cpio (for copying backuppc data pools) in my experience. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
