Technically, there are tools to restore the hardlinks, e.g. do the deduplication on the file system. They are called fdupes and jdupes, one of them is rewritten modern implementation. TL;DR which one is the newer, I beileve F does.
But obviously, this is relevant to bpc v3 Jan Dne 04.02.2019 v 16:37 Les Mikesell napsal(a): > On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 3:38 AM Arsalan Naeem <naeemarsa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Recently I experimented with host migration from one backuppc to another >> fresh install. I rsynced the hosts folder in /var/lib/BackupPC/pc/< Host > >> to a new instance. After adding the host via the web GUI. I could see all >> the incremental/full backup history. I was able to download archive and >> restore it to a server. I have done this many times with 100% success rate >> with other hosts. >> >> I wanted to know is this a safe method off migration and cold storage backup >> option, also how is this process working, I wasn't able to find anything in >> the wiki regarding migrations other then TarCopy. > With backuppc v3, copying a host directory works as far as having a > copy of the content goes but you lose the de-duplication of storage > for subsequent runs. The problem with it is that you lose the > hardlinks into the pool/cpool directory that next backup run needs to > be able to match files and make new hardlinks. So you'll get a 2nd > copy of each file in your archive until the copied backups expire and > are deleted. > _______________________________________________ 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/
