On 03/17 07:48 , Philip Parsons (Velindre - Medical Physics) wrote: > If I set up a clean install on a new system, how easy would it be to migrate > the existing pool to that?
It's possible, but time-consuming. I know some people here have figured out scripts for doing it, and I've done it with plain tar+netcat; but pretty much no matter which way you do it, if your pool is of a non-trivial size the amount of time it will take to move it is likely to be an unacceptable number of days of downtime for your backup system. This is why the best-practices advice on this mailing list for many years has been to build a new backup server in parallel with the old one and just start doing backups to that. Once everything is running, then you can shut off the old server and keep it around in case you need to restore something from it. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ 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/
