Steve wrote at about 01:13:15 +0000 on Tuesday, April 30, 2013: > Or I should say I >could< get to the server before I tried to configure the > BackupPC server to point at my old backup. > The problem is that my backups are on an ext3 filesystem whereas my new > CentOS 6.4 is partitioned with ext4. > > I can use tune3fs to convert ext3 to ext4 but I'm a little nervous about > doing it. If it goes wrong, there go my backups. > On the other hand the backups are no use if I can't get to them. > > Anyone done this before? The h/w the backups are on is an external 1T USB > MyBook.
I'm confused... if your backups are on an ext3 filesystem then just mount them ext3.... CentOS (like any *nix) can work with multiple filesystem types simultaneously - ext2/3/4, ntfs, reiserfs, vfat, solaris, hfs, etc. In fact, 'mount' is usually able to figure out the filesystem type automatically... worst case, if it can't specify "-t ext3" on the command line or give the equivalent parameter in your fstab. Saying "my new CentOS 6.4 is partitioned with ext4" really makes no sense -- disks are partitioned, filesystems sit on individual partitions and are formatted, the actual distro (CentOS 6.4) is not partitioned nor does it have a fixed associated filesystem... Perhaps, though I am not understanding your issue... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introducing AppDynamics Lite, a free troubleshooting tool for Java/.NET Get 100% visibility into your production application - at no cost. Code-level diagnostics for performance bottlenecks with <2% overhead Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap1 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
