It's the nightly tasks that should be disabled to ensure nothing is purged.
Robert Trevellyan On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 2:56 PM daggs via BackupPC-users < backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Greetings, > > done all the suggested, now I have access to my backups. > the backup is mounted as rw as it is required when the config is on the > same drive > all the backups are disabled, can I assume they won't be deleted? > > Dagg > > > Sent: Friday, January 26, 2024 at 10:59 PM > > From: "Christian Völker via BackupPC-users" < > backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > > To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" < > backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > > Cc: "Christian Völker" <cvoel...@knebb.de> > > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] restoring pool > > > > Good point. > > I suggest to mount as Read-only. Should work. > > Grüsse > > Christian Völker > > > > > Am 26.01.2024 um 21:29 schrieb backu...@kosowsky.org: > > > > > > I would be careful as running BackupPC could cause certain old backups > > > to expire that you may not want to expire. > > > Plus, if you don't have all the hosts set properly, it could delete > > > pool files that are needed... > > > > > > I would be VERY careful to: > > > 1. Make sure I have my full config restored -- including desired > > > expiry times > > > 2. That all my desired backup hosts are intact > > > 3. That I know what I am doing before starting the daemon and risking > > > auto-deletion > > > > > > Regardless, definitely make a copy/snapshot before proceeding... so > > > you can undo... > > > > > > Jeff > > > > > > > > > Christian Völker via BackupPC-users wrote at about 10:41:33 +0100 on > Friday, January 26, 2024: > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> does your HDD contain the full structure of a pool (usually the > > >> structure below /var/lib/BackupPC)? If so I'd recommend to add all the > > >> hosts which are visible as directory in pc/-folder. Stop BackupPC, > mount > > >> your hdd to /var/lib/BackupPC and start BackupPC. > > >> > > >> It should recon the structure and match with the hosts configuration. > > >> > > >> /CV > > >> > > >> > > >>> Am 26.01.24 um 09:35 schrieb daggs via BackupPC-users: > > >>> Greetings. > > >>> > > >>> I have a pool of backups in a external hdd, I've seems to have > misplaced the config for them, is there a way to reconfigure backuppc so > they can be used again? > > >>> > > >>> Thanks, > > >>> > > >>> Dagg > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> _______________________________________________ > > >>> 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/ > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> 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/ > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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/ > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ >
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