Pat Rice wrote: > HI all > Well at the moment I an recovering from a flooding situation. > I had my office flooded to 2.5ft of water. Luckily the Backup server > (backup pc) was above the water line and also my hard drive for my > backup server. Unfortunately my machines that were on the ground, were > not so lucky. I have spent one or two days pouring water out of > machines, not a pleasant sight!!!! > > I have a new hard drive as I am worried about the hard drive that was > already in the system, being exposed to the damp/water etc. > > So I want to try and get the data off it, and reconnect it the server. > The Ideal situation would be a rsync copy of the server at a different > location (anyone have this done ?). > > I had it set up as a LVM so /lib/backuppc/<backups> > > What I would like to know, or if any on had any experience of: > Making a mirror or the backup disk: > Should I do a dd? > or would a copy be sufficient ? > or will I have to worry about hard links that need to be kept ? > > > Or should I just bite the bullet and put in a rsync server and take my > chances with the disk? > Any advice would be greatly received. > > Thanks in advance > Pat >
See the FAQ section "Copying the pool" under the header "Other installation topics" http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#other_installation_topics Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
