Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Migration, Fedora 8 and BackupPC_tarPCCopy

2012-05-24 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 05/24 12:35 , Adam Goryachev wrote: > I suspect that the time taken to do a block level copy (including the > additional 1TB) and then deleting the 1TB of data would still be quicker > than any other solution (unless the backuppc data was exceptionally small). I agree with Adam, I have had simi

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Migration, Fedora 8 and BackupPC_tarPCCopy

2012-05-24 Thread Timothy J Massey
On May 23, 2012, at 10:32 PM, "ad^2" wrote: > Correct. As I mentioned in the original post. > > The volume had about 1TB of other data. A block level copy would have > taken to long. I can't argue with the "too long" part: if your requirement was that the data copy over in milliseconds, nothin

[BackupPC-users] Need to restore Backuppc server

2012-05-24 Thread Arch Willingham
Help!!! An upgrade to Ubuntu killed the system and I'm having to reinstall. All the Backuppc data was on a secondary raid drive and is fine. It has not been changed. I also copied all the main drive over to a temp drive until I rebuilt the new system. What's next? I assume I just reinstall Bac

Re: [BackupPC-users] Need to restore Backuppc server

2012-05-24 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
Yes to all counts. I generally mount my backuppc drives as /var/lib/backuppc. Then I have a cron job copy /etc/backuppc in there just in case I lose the root filesystem. SSH keys live in /var/lib/backuppc/.ssh. Regards, Tyler On 2012-05-24 15:55, Arch Willingham wrote: > Help!!! > > An upgrade

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Windows Client

2012-05-24 Thread Adam Goryachev
On 21/05/12 22:58, Michael Stowe wrote: > Yes -- a reboot will do it (of course) but so will placing a file called > "wake.up" in the backuppc client directory. Thanks, the wake.up file didn't help, but a reboot solved the problem. I've now rolled this out across another three servers, and it has