On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 11:36 AM backuppc--- via BackupPC-users
wrote:
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> Right, I guess I should have mentioned that I don't trust that old HDD
> anymore. Plus keeping backups of two old clients that only exist in BackupPC
> has been a bad idea because if my backups get corrupted or deleted,
No guarantees that I didn't miss something or that you won't make any
unintentional mistakes in implementing the process resulting in total
loss of data...
backuppc--- via BackupPC-users wrote at about 19:33:43 +0300 on Thursday,
August 4, 2022:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
> >
> > why not just
Les Mikesell wrote:
>
> why not just leave it at having the VM set
> up with a version of backuppc that works with the old drive mounted?
> Then on the odd chance that you need something from it, just fire up
> that VM again.
Right, I guess I should have mentioned that I don't trust that old
Greetings
Running a number of small businesses and personal systems on our network.
(Running Devuan testing on working systems and devuan stable (Chimaera
(sp??) for servers.)
So - - - if I install and run backuppc on a testing server (where I
test new software that I want to run on my servers
If I understand you correctly, you have separate v3 and v4 backups
that you would like to merge.
You could actually do it -- and I have done similar but it requires
some effort and manual work... and hence there are risks of making mistakes..
The process goes something like this.
0. Turn off
On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 7:32 AM backuppc--- via BackupPC-users
wrote:
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> Right now I am thinking that it would probably be easiest if I set up a
> Debian 10 VM, which comes with BackupPC 3.3.2, point that at the old data
> directory and use it to extract the data I want. Then I store that on
Hi,
Thanks everyone for asking for clarifications. I clearly haven't been thinking
enough about what I want to achieve ultimately.
Current situation:
- HDD with a complete BackupPC 3.x data directory (called __TOPDIR__ by the
documentation), size 1.8 TB, that has not been used in three years.
On 8/4/22 07:44, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote:
On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 2:31 PM backuppc--- via BackupPC-users <
backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
I pulled a V3 pool off an old hard disk that I had wrongly assumed was
broken. Now I would like to import as much data as possible into my
On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 2:31 PM backuppc--- via BackupPC-users <
backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I pulled a V3 pool off an old hard disk that I had wrongly assumed was
> broken. Now I would like to import as much data as possible into my current
> V4 installation.
>
> Merging
