Hi there, On Fri, 3 Jun 2022, Bruno Rogerio Fernandes wrote:
... about 15TB of data ... planning to migrate to backuppc V4 ... backup is done every day through an Internet connection and would be pretty dangerous waiting for many weeks to do a first full backup (wait for transfers to complete through Internet - about 100Mbps client uplink speed).
Without more information about your data it's hard to be sure, but I'm not convinced you've yet made the case for employing BackupPC. In any case I make it only about two weeks to transfer your 15TBytes of data at 100MBit/s, even if it's uncompressed. Is there nothing useful to be gained by compressing the data?
... I don't have enough space to accommodate two backups ...
Buy more space. Compared with most data, it's very cheap.
So, I'm wondering, is it ok to seed the backuppc pool manually? ... If I ... could ... backuppc won't transfer this file over Internet, so solving my issues. ... Are there any other things that I'm missing? Is it ok to do that?
Don't do it. You will almost certainly create issues which few here will be able to help you with. It could easily then take longer than two weeks to sort out the resulting mess. Why not just start the new backup now? If you value your data more than the cost of more storage, you have no excuse for not buying more storage. It sounds to me like you already don't have enough, because most people who are serious about backups will have a minimum of three copies of the data - often kept at three different locations on the planet. Until a few months ago I wasn't so worried about the planet, but it's probably worth bearing in mind that it's the only one we have. -- 73, Ged. _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
