Hi Folks, I got a little problem. I got a new job within a new firm which is the legal successor of another firm. This old firm is already terminated and all we got left from the IT infrastructure is a dd image of the BackupPC-Server. I reconstructed it into a harddisk on our new backup-server which will use BackupPC as the backup solution of choice. We want to keep the old backup data and add our new infrastructure to it.
What I did that far is: 1. Set up Ubuntu 10.04 lts server and installed BackupPC. Works. 2. Restored the dd image on a brand new 2 TB harddisk. The process finished and gave me a harddisk with obviously the data structure the original machine had. It does not boot since the underlying hardware does not match the specs of the old OS (CentOS 5.1.) 3. Created symbolic links in the BackupPC working directory (/var/lib/backuppc/) pointing to the corresponding directories on the new 2TB harddisk partition. 4. Changed ownership of the old BackupPC-directories on the new 2TB harddisk to match the new Ubuntu installation (backuppc:backuppc) recursively so that BackupPC has all the rights it needs. 5. Restarted BackupPC. Came up properly. Doing so I hoped that BackupPC would recognize its former data and import it, so I can rebuild the old backups into new virtual machines, so our developers are able to access the data they need via CVS. But it didn't work. The BackupPC web interface doesn't show up any of the old machines. So I can't rebuild them. Is there anyone out there who would help me solve my problem? I tried several other ways like rebuilding the original dd image into a VirtualBox image and booting that, but this didn't work because the old Admin messed up the system so that BackupPC doesn't start in it because of user rights problems (the interface starts as the apache user and thus will not connect to the BackupPC-server). Since our bosses want to keep BackupPC as the companies' backup strategy the import solution this is no longer a solution, too. Kind regards, ChromeSilver
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