Brad Alexander wrote at about 14:57:41 -0500 on Friday, February 24, 2012: > Hey all, > > I'm running into a problem migrating my /var/lib/backuppc pc > directory. I got cpool, log, pool, tmp, and trash migrated via rsync, > and I am attempting to migrate the pc directory.
It's really not possible to *separately* migrate the pc directory since it has no way of knowing about and hence preserving the links to the cpool/pool. So you will have a duplicate copy of the pool files (rather than links) in your pc tree, even if you use the -H flag. If you do use the -H flag, duplicate copies within the pc tree will be linked to themselves but not to the pool. Then when BackupPC_nightly runs, all the pool files will be erased (unless a new backup has been done in the interim) since there will be no links to the pc tree. There really is no magical way to "migrate" a BackupPC archive other than one of the following: 1. Use "rsync -H" on the entire /var/lib/BackupPC tree which becomes increasingly slow if not unworkable for large archives 2. Copy over the raw filesystem using some notion of disk copy (e.g., dd) or filesystem snapshots. This requires you to be using the same type of filesystem and to copy over the entire filesystem. 3. Use either BackupPC_tarCopy or my program BackupPC_copyPcPool to copy over the archive preserving links. These are typically much slower than #2 but they scale better than #1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ 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/
