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New section with a tip on how to copy an AFFA archive to a new disk
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===== Copying a AFFA USB hard drive archive to a new disk =====
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Affa uses copious amounts of hard links to compress and preserve disk space for its backups. If you are in the situation where you want to copy such a disk archive to a new (bigger) disk, you need to ensure that the hard  links are copied correctly or the destination copy may became significantly bigger than the total of the source archive.
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One way to copy across file systems (i.e. two different USB disks) and preserve the hard links is as follows:
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* mount both USB drives but with different mount points. e.g. /media/backup1 & /media/backup2 and then:
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mkdir /media/backup2/archive
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cd /media/backup1/archive
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tar cpf - . ! ( cd /media/backup2/archive && tar xpf - )
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where '''archive''' is the name of the AFFA job you want to move to the other disk.
    
===== Setup Affa =====
 
===== Setup Affa =====
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