On 05/21 11:37 , scartomail wrote: > I am using debian/lenny and backuppc 3. > Having bought extra harddisk space I would like to move the topdir > from /var/lib/backuppc to /home/backuppc_data.
Why not just copy your old data from /var/lib/backuppc to the new disk, and mount it on /var/lib/backuppc? I would suggest using dd to copy your data (even if it includes a bunch of extraneous OS stuff, it'll still be much faster because it won't have to follow all the symlinks); grow the filesystem to use all the space on your new disk; then move/delete the data you don't need. After that's done; you can just mount it on top of /var/lib/backuppc. > ps. This is a new installation and there are no old backups well, if there's no old backups, the easy thing to do might be to uninstall the backuppc package, wipe the contents of /var/lib/backuppc, mount the new filesystem on the new disk there, then install the backuppc package again. Just a couple of alternative suggestions. I really do encourage that the data store (/var/lib/backuppc) be on a separate disk. Isolating it from the rest of the OS minimizes damage in case one filesystem or the other runs out of space, or the disk dies, or you have filesystem corruption, or you want to move things around/add more space. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
