Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> On 03/05 04:59 , cedric briner wrote:
>> Is there any possiblity to move a set of host from one backuppc server 
>> to an other one.
>>
>> I was thinking to rsync all the server1:<backuppc_dir>/pc/host[1,2,3] to 
>> server2:<backuppc_dir>/pc
>>
>> and then ask backuppc to create the pool or the cpool from the 
>> <backuppc_dir>/pc
>>
>> any idea on how to do this.
> 
> Yes it's possible.
> However, it's generally so much work
you mean human work ?

> and so time-consuming that you're
> better off just letting the new host run for a while to back up the data,
> until such time as the old data would have expired from the old host.
okay I see. Maybe I'll go that way.

> If you have some very old data that you'd like to preserve, however; I think
> there is some discussion in the archives about how to copy just certain
> hosts and then rebuild the links. I can't think of just what to search for,
> but back in 2005 there was a thread called 'Cpool question' that may give
> you some clues.

what about this :
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#other_installation_topics
   >> Copying the pool
it feels that this is the howto, I was looking for.

Ced.

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Cedric BRINER
Geneva - Switzerland

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