I backup (with BackupPC) onto a partition /BackupPC on machine A. I backup one directory on machine A, and another directory on machine B.
I recently received a smartd warning about machine A: ----------------------------- Device: /dev/sdb, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors ----------------------------- This disk (sdb) is actually the drive on which I backup, though there are 7 partitions on the disk, and I don't know if the problem is in the /BackupPC partition. (I don't know how to determine with smartctl exactly where the problem is.) I have a large (1TB) USB external drive I would like to use to backup my BackupPC data, in case drive sdb actually packs up. I've looked quickly at the BackupPC documentation, in particular the section on archiving, but I am not entirely clear of the procedure, and would be very grateful for precise instructions. I'm also not entirely clear whether if I added a further internal drive /dev/sdc/ to my machine whether it would be relatively easy to transfer the BackupPC data from the USB disk to the new disk. Any suggestions or advice gratefully received. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
