it should work to copy just the 'pc' directory into the appropriate place on
another server BUT you should use the -P flag with cp to preserve mtime.
with rsync just do 'rsync -a'. I have done this once before and i did not
copy the cpool. i did make sure every config option was that same but
specifically I made sure that compression was on at the new config because i
didnt know if i would get an error otherwise. the nightly run filled up
with hardlinks as i expected it too. i was initially worried that each file
would just have a single hardlink so it would get deleted but came to my
senses and remebered that backuppc only runs that little bit of logic to
delete files with just one hardlink in the [c]pool directories.
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you have sufficient disk space, will it work to copy the per-pc
> directories from one or a few hosts to a different backuppc server
> without trying to merge anything in the pool? That is, will new
> backups of these hosts be pooled normally and the unpooled copies go
> away when they expire? I'm guessing that has to be true for smb/tar
> copies because of the way transferred files are matched with the pool,
> but what about rsync? Will an rsync full that puts a link to an
> existing file in the new run directory fix up a missing pool link or
> does it just link to the previous copy assuming that the pool link is
> already correct and in place?
>
> --
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