On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:22 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > we had problems on our backup storage. I think I'll be able to access some > data, anyway. > Now I'm going to restore BackupPC on new storage. > My question is: can I simply copy /var/lib/backuppc content to a new storage? > What would happen if some files from the old storage are not copied? BackupPC > can be automatically aware of this and do a full backup of those files?
If the archive is very large it is generally not practical to copy it with file-oriented programs (rsync -H, tar, etc.) because reconstructing the hardlinks to the pool is slow and inefficient. You may just want to start over with fresh backups rather than kill a few days trying to copy the old ones - and just keep the old disks for as long as you might need to try to recover something old. But, there is this approach if you want to try it: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/?title=Move_backup_data You can also image-copy the partition, but that will only work if there are no errors reading the old copy. Backuppc will detect missing/corrupt files and update them on the next run (at least the next full). -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ 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/
