22 May
2010
22 May
'10
1:06 a.m.
On 5/21/2010 5:46 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
These is a backuppc archive with millions of hardlinks that will take forever to copy if I have to do a file-oriented copy onto a different partition size.
have you tried a dump | restore style Ext{3|2}FS replica? that works by inode and does it pretty efficiently. catch22, the source shouldn't be mounted.
I haven't tried on this machine, but with an earlier 250 gig setup I was never able to complete a copy over a weekend with any of the file-oriented approaches. Dump can dump the inode numbers but restore will remap them to different numbers, needing a lookup table for all files with multiple hard links - which with backuppc is all of them.
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