Need to ask. Can you really run this?
#su - backuppc -c "/usr/bin/touch /mnt/b1/pc/test/x.txt"
or just
#su - backuppc -c "/usr/bin/touch /mnt/b1/x.txt"
if you don't have the directories yet.
Sorry if this is too simple to you.
Luis
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Dan Smisko <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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.
> >
> >
>
>
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