[BackupPC-users] Restoring Backuppc itself

2012-10-15 Thread M.Baert
Hello there, I would need a bit of advice with backuppc. I just reinstalled ubuntu (12.04 to replace 10.10) and backuppc (.deb 3.2.1-2ubuntu1.1 replacing 3.2.0-3ubuntu4~maverick1). I have a .tgz of old /etc/backuppc and /var/lib/backuppc. The store is on an external disk, which was mounted from

Re: [BackupPC-users] No more free inodes

2012-10-15 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 10/14 06:30 , Frederic MASSOT wrote: I started copying Backuppc data from /var/lib/backuppc (ext4) to the temporary directory /mnt/backuppc-new (xfs) with the command cp -a. Due to the hardlinks, the only way to copy the backuppc data pool from one set of disks to another at anything like

Re: [BackupPC-users] No more free inodes

2012-10-15 Thread Frédéric Massot
Le 15/10/2012 15:32, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom a écrit : On 10/14 06:30 , Frederic MASSOT wrote: I started copying Backuppc data from /var/lib/backuppc (ext4) to the temporary directory /mnt/backuppc-new (xfs) with the command cp -a. Due to the hardlinks, the only way to copy the backuppc data

Re: [BackupPC-users] No more free inodes

2012-10-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom chr...@real-time.com wrote: On 10/14 06:30 , Frederic MASSOT wrote: I started copying Backuppc data from /var/lib/backuppc (ext4) to the temporary directory /mnt/backuppc-new (xfs) with the command cp -a. Due to the hardlinks, the only

Re: [BackupPC-users] No more free inodes

2012-10-15 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 10/15 04:40 , Frédéric Massot wrote: The problem is that the original file system (ext4) has no inode available and increasing the size of an ext4 file system does not increase the number of the inode. To have no more inode problem the new filesystem is xfs, so I can not copy data with

Re: [BackupPC-users] No more free inodes

2012-10-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Frédéric Massot frede...@juliana-multimedia.com wrote: The problem is that the original file system (ext4) has no inode available and increasing the size of an ext4 file system does not increase the number of the inode. To have no more inode problem the new

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restoring Backuppc itself

2012-10-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 6:01 AM, M.Baert m.ba...@free.fr wrote: I just reinstalled ubuntu (12.04 to replace 10.10) and backuppc (.deb 3.2.1-2ubuntu1.1 replacing 3.2.0-3ubuntu4~maverick1). I have a .tgz of old /etc/backuppc and /var/lib/backuppc. The store is on an external disk, which was

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restoring Backuppc itself

2012-10-15 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-10-15 20:07, Les Mikesell wrote: The only likely problems would be if the backuppc version has changed or the packaging has changed the locations for things - and these shouldn't have much chance of harming your existing archive. What I usually do for similar cases is save copies