Yes, only the backup data (pool, cpool, etc) was on the dead drive. The config is in /etc/BackupPC. I guess I will try to re-create the backup directories and try another backup.
Certainly a RAID is worth considering, but the next question is what to put on a RAID drive. A dead root drive would not be much fun either. My preference would be software RAID for portability, but I don't know about performance. Does software RAID work on a Linux root drive? Thanks again for your help. Dan Smisko Les Mikesell wrote: The answer to this is going to depend on how you installed originally and where the configuration lives. If the only things on the dead drive were the pool/cpool/trash/pc directories you can probably re-create them (or that might happen by itself as long as the mount point is writable by backuppc). This would be a good opportunity to think about using a RAID mirror for the replacement, though. On 1/22/2010 4:24 PM, Dan Smisko wrote: >> I have a BackupPC 3.0.0 system that has been running well for some time, >> but the backup drive >> has just failed. I have some replacement hardware that I'm looking at, >> but what I >> would like to do immediately is to plug in a replacement drive and >> continue with the >> current setup. At this point resuming backups is more important than >> trying to retrieve >> (possibly unrecoverable) old data. >> >> Is there is simple way to do that? Can I just plug in a >> new drive in and everything will proceed merrily along? If not, can I >> manually initialize >> the new drive? Failing that, what is the quickest procedure to get the >> current backup >> system back up and running. I apologize if there's already a document >> for this, please >> point me to it. >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ 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/
