Thanks very much for your response. I think you
misunderstood the question (or I misunderstood the
answer).
The backup repository is not moving. The files that
are being backed up are being moved.
Does this make sense? Does this change the answer?
Thanks again,
Errol
--- Ben Escoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>>> Errol Siegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>>>> wrote the following on Sun, 25 Dec 2005
> 10:16:35 -0800 (PST)
> > I have a directory structure on a Windows (FAT32)
> box. I want to
> > move this data to another drive running on a Linux
> box (Ext3).
> >
> > I have a machine that has been backing up this
> directory structure
> > over the internet. Is there a way to make this
> move without backing
> > up the data from scratch (it is pretty large) and
> losing the
> > revision history?
>
> So the backup repository is being moved from fat32
> to ext3? I think
> it should work if you just copy the whole repository
> over (using
> rsync, or rdiff-backup itself), then continue as
> normal.
>
> The new configuration won't need quoting, but
> rdiff-backup should
> continue quoting to preserve compatibility with the
> rest of the
> repository.
>
>
> --
> Ben Escoto
>
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