[BackupPC-users] Copy host backups from one BackupPC server to another

2012-07-30 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hello, what's the prefered way to copy/move backups of one or more hosts from one BackupPC instance to another? I searched the BackupPC docs and google, but didn't find a working solution so far. It seems like BackupPC_tarPCCoppy could be useful. I tried to create a tar archive with all the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Copy host backups from one BackupPC server to another

2012-07-30 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hello, Am 30.07.2012 10:55, schrieb Tim Fletcher: On 30/07/12 09:43, Jonas Meurer wrote: what's the prefered way to copy/move backups of one or more hosts from one BackupPC instance to another? Normal solutions are: 1. Copy the raw disks from the old server to the new server (eg via dd

Re: [BackupPC-users] Copy host backups from one BackupPC server to another

2012-07-30 Thread Mike
I cannot believe that it's impossible to move backups of hosts from one BackupPC instance to another. And actually I believe that BackupPC_tarPCCopy is the right tool to do so. But I don't get how to use it. If you have enough RAM, you can rsync -H the directory in pc from one machine to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Copy host backups from one BackupPC server to another

2012-07-30 Thread Steve
If you had space somewhere and it is only a few old machines...it wouldnt be too much trouble to just restore them someplace and then let the new server back up the restored directories...that way you get to keep the pooling advantages. A. On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Jonas Meurer

Re: [BackupPC-users] Copy host backups from one BackupPC server to another

2012-07-30 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 6:04 AM, Jonas Meurer jo...@freesources.org wrote: But my problem is with inactive hosts. I have some old hosts which aren't available anymore, but for which I keep the last backups in the system. I'd like to migrate these backups to the new backup server as well, as