No guarantees that I didn't miss something or that you won't make any unintentional mistakes in implementing the process resulting in total loss of data...
backuppc--- via BackupPC-users wrote at about 19:33:43 +0300 on Thursday, August 4, 2022: > Les Mikesell wrote: > > > > why not just leave it at having the VM set > > up with a version of backuppc that works with the old drive mounted? > > Then on the odd chance that you need something from it, just fire up > > that VM again. > > Right, I guess I should have mentioned that I don't trust that old HDD > anymore. Plus keeping backups of two old clients that only exist in BackupPC > has been a bad idea because if my backups get corrupted or deleted, I don't > have the original data to fall back to anymore. > > kosowsky.org wrote: > > > > You could actually do it -- and I have done similar but it requires > > some effort and manual work... and hence there are risks of making > > mistakes.. > > The process goes something like this. > > That is amazing. I think I will try that. At least for the two old clients > that don't exist in the new BackupPC installation, the process looks not > entirely horrible. > > BR, > Fabian > > > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki > Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
