Tod Detre <[email protected]> wrote on 05/24/2011 09:48:07 AM:
> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Which one do you think is best for BackupPC?
>
> One of the main reasons I like xfs is the tool xfs_copy. This will
> allow you to copy a backuppc pool filesystem quickly and efficiently.
> BackupPC pools have too many hardlinks to make rsync work efficiently.
> dd works, but copies all of the "empty" space too.
FWIW, partclone is like xfs_copy for all sorts of filesystems: it
understands them well enough to copy them without copying empty space.
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