After an absence because of personal issues, I have replaced the drive. The only thing on the drive was the backup data, configuration is in /etc. The drive is writable by backuppc.
After I start the backuppc daemon the BackupPC_TrashClean process starts. I started a full dump of the host "test". BackupPC_dump -f test started, but nothing happened. The failure message is: unable to open/create /mnt/b1/pc/test/XferLOG.z Do I have to run the "perl configure.pl" command in the distribution source to set up the backup directories? Will it remember my old answers? Will it overwrite the configuration in /etc/backuppc/config.pl? Thanks very much for any help you can provide. Dan Smisko Balanced Audio Technology 1300 First State Blvd. Suite A Wilmington, DE 19804 (302)999-8855 (302)999-8818 fax [email protected] Les Mikesell wrote: > 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 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. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ 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/
