a good alternative. See:
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- http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=503
+ http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=backuppc-users
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in the pool will make the memory usage large and the copy very slow.
Don't forget to stop BackupPC while the copy runs.
+Starting in 3.0.0 a new script bin/BackupPC_tarPCCopy can be
+used to assist the copy process. Given one or more pc paths
+(eg: TOPDIR/pc/HOST or TOPDIR/pc/HOST/nnn), BackupPC_tarPCCopy
+creates a tar archive with all the hardlinks pointing to ../cpool/....
+Any files not hardlinked (eg: backups, LOG etc) are included
+verbatim.
+
+You will need to specify the -P option to tar when you extract
+the archive generated by BackupPC_tarPCCopy since the hardlink
+targets are outside of the directory being extracted.
+
+To copy a complete store (ie: __TOPDIR__) using BackupPC_tarPCCopy
+you should:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+stop BackupPC so that the store is static.
+
+=item *
+
+copy the cpool, conf and log directory trees using any technique
+(like cp, rsync or tar) wihtout the need to preserve hardlinks.
+
+=item *
+
+copy the pc directory using BackupPC_tarPCCopy:
+
+ su __BACKUPPCUSER__
+ cd NEW_TOPDIR
+ mkdir pc
+ cd pc
+ __INSTALLDIR__/bin/BackupPC_tarPCCopy __TOPDIR__/pc | tar xvPf -
+
+=back
+
=back
=head2 Fixing installation problems
=head1 Copyright
-Copyright (C) 2001-2006 Craig Barratt
+Copyright (C) 2001-2007 Craig Barratt
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