Matthias Meyer wrote: > I plan to backup (with rsync) some machines with nearly identical data > (operating system). Because this machines are only reachable through > internet I want to avoid a lot of traffic for files which are already > on the backuppc server. > I assume rsync will only compare the data between the client and the > backup of the client and not between client and cpool!? > > So my idea: > 0) create host1 with the backuppc gui > 1) host1 runs a full backup > 2) create host2 with the backuppc gui > 3) cp -a /var/lib/backuppc/pc/host1/0 /var/lib/backuppc/pc/host2/0 > 4) cp -a /var/lib/backuppc/pc/host1/backups > /var/lib/backuppc/pc/host2/backups 5) run a full backup for host2 > 6) run BackupPC_deleteBackup -c host2 -d 0 > > Someone believe that this will make a problem? > If somebody is interested I can make a script > (similiar the BackupPC_deleteBackup) and store it in the wiki. > > br > Matthias ;-) As outlined in the documentation: su backuppc cd NEW_TOPDIR mkdir pc cd pc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarPCCopy /var/lib/backuppc/pc | tar xvPf - I should run: su backuppc cd /var/lib/backuppc/pc/host2 mkdir 0 cd 0 /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarPCCopy /var/lib/backuppc/pc/host1/0 | tar xvPf -
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