BackupPC is installed and working great for new hosts. Is there a way to take the hundreds of GB from old hosts that exist on the backup server and import them into the BackupPC storage pool?
The old backup system uses rsync to dump all files to a local disk on the same server where BackupPC is installed, albeit with incorrect file ownership. I don't want to re-transfer that data over our narrow bandwidth connection if I don't have to. I believe rsync will sort out permissions and timestamps on its own. So far I've created a host in BackupPC and changed the transfer type to 'tar' and successfully imported one of its mount points, but now the tar sharename is called "/home/backup/<servername>/cur/<share>/", where the actual share on the host is simply called /<share>. My intention is to flip the Xfer method from 'tar' to 'rsync' after I get most of the larger shares imported via local tar. Is it necessary to associate the imported files with a specific host or does hard-linking take care of all that? Thanks! +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by itism...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Find and fix application performance issues faster with Applications Manager Applications Manager provides deep performance insights into multiple tiers of your business applications. It resolves application problems quickly and reduces your MTTR. Get your free trial! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/302982198;130105516;z _______________________________________________ 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/
