On 04/10/2010 2:20 PM, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 08:56:49AM -0400, Chris Purves wrote: >> I recently copied the pool to a new hard disk following the >> "Copying the pool" instructions from the main documentation. The >> documentation says to copy the 'cpool', 'log', and 'conf' >> directories using any technique and the 'pc' directory using >> BackupPC_tarPCCopy; however, there is no mention of what to do >> with the 'pool' directory. I thought it might be created >> automatically when the nightly cleanup runs, but three days later >> and still no 'pool' directory. >> >> Is this an oversight in the documentation or is the 'pool' >> directory not needed? I am using BackupPC 3.1.0. > > Unless you have compression turned off, the pool directory should be > totally empty. > > If you have compression turned off, the cpool directory should be > totally empty. > > Whichever one is empty can be ignored.
So it is. I reconnected and mounted the old drive and the pool directory is indeed empty. Thanks for your reply. -- Chris Purves "What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning." - Werner Heisenberg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization is moving to the mainstream and overtaking non-virtualized environment for deploying applications. Does it make network security easier or more difficult to achieve? Read this whitepaper to separate the two and get a better understanding. http://p.sf.net/sfu/hp-phase2-d2d _______________________________________________ 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/
