Re: [BackupPC-users] Migrating backup machines

2010-12-21 Thread Daniele Davolio
On 12/17/2010 04:29 PM, Jim Kyle wrote: On Friday, December 17, 2010, at 5:58:24 AM, d.davo...@mastertraining.it wrote: - Started the backuppc daemon on the new server. - tested backup and restore manually. Checked the configuration around. - tested the automatic backup during night. This

Re: [BackupPC-users] Migrating backup machines

2010-12-17 Thread d.davo...@mastertraining.it
Ok, this is what I did to make the migration works. I had Backuppc 3.1 installed on a Debian Etch server. The pool is located on a NFS storage resource and mounted on the Backuppc Server. I wanted to migrate to an Ubuntu 10.04LTS server, with Backuppc always 3.1, keeping the same pool on NFS

Re: [BackupPC-users] Migrating backup machines

2010-12-17 Thread Jim Kyle
On Friday, December 17, 2010, at 5:58:24 AM, d.davo...@mastertraining.it wrote: - Started the backuppc daemon on the new server. - tested backup and restore manually. Checked the configuration around. - tested the automatic backup during night. This seems enough. Did you mount the NFS pool

Re: [BackupPC-users] Migrating backup machines

2010-12-16 Thread d.davo...@mastertraining.it
Thanks guys for the tips. I'm trying and I'll let you know when (and if) I'll manage to make it works! ;) On 12/15/2010 07:30 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On 12/15/2010 11:54 AM, Robin Lee Powell wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 04:26:07PM +0100, d.davo...@mastertraining.it wrote: OK, I know that

Re: [BackupPC-users] Migrating backup machines

2010-12-15 Thread d.davo...@mastertraining.it
OK, I know that it's an old topic :) I checked the mailing list and wiki but still I can't find the right direction. I just need migrate to a new Backupc server. I don't need to move the pool because my data are on a NAS. My old backuppc server is a Linux Debian etch. The new one is a Debian

Re: [BackupPC-users] Migrating backup machines

2010-12-15 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 04:26:07PM +0100, d.davo...@mastertraining.it wrote: OK, I know that it's an old topic :) I checked the mailing list and wiki but still I can't find the right direction. I just need migrate to a new Backupc server. I don't need to move the pool because my data are

Re: [BackupPC-users] Migrating backup machines

2010-12-15 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 09:54:02 -0800 on Wednesday, December 15, 2010: On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 04:26:07PM +0100, d.davo...@mastertraining.it wrote: OK, I know that it's an old topic :) I checked the mailing list and wiki but still I can't find the right direction. I

Re: [BackupPC-users] Migrating backup machines

2010-12-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On 12/15/2010 11:54 AM, Robin Lee Powell wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 04:26:07PM +0100, d.davo...@mastertraining.it wrote: OK, I know that it's an old topic :) I checked the mailing list and wiki but still I can't find the right direction. I just need migrate to a new Backupc server. I

Re: [BackupPC-users] Migrating backup machines

2010-04-23 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Wednesday 21 April 2010 06:03:08 Tyler J. Wagner wrote: I am currently in the process of doing this in two steps: 1. Moving the cpool to a partition with LVM, so as to be able to make snapshot binary backups in future. 2. Copying the snapshot over the network to a backup server.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Migrating backup machines

2010-04-23 Thread B. Alexander
Thanks Tyler, However, for snapshotting to work, don't you have to have at least as much space for the snapshot as you do for the original partition? I currently am using nearly 60% of the VG just for backups, which is the root of the problem. It wasn't apparent in my scanning of the article

Re: [BackupPC-users] Migrating backup machines

2010-04-23 Thread Kameleon
I too had the same question. However, I did think about mounting an iscsi volume and create a secondary LV on it to move the snapshot to. Other options would be to boot the server with something like clonezilla and the target machine with the same and do a direct copy that way. I am actually

Re: [BackupPC-users] Migrating backup machines

2010-04-23 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Friday 23 April 2010 22:33:49 B. Alexander wrote: However, for snapshotting to work, don't you have to have at least as much space for the snapshot as you do for the original partition? I currently am using nearly 60% of the VG just for backups, which is the root of the problem. It wasn't

Re: [BackupPC-users] Migrating backup machines

2010-04-21 Thread Les Mikesell
Tyler J. Wagner wrote: On Tuesday 20 April 2010 23:22:47 Les Mikesell wrote: This is discussed by about every new user on the mail list, but the short answer is that there is not a good way to do it. Rsync will work but will take a very long time. Another approach is to image-copy the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Migrating backup machines

2010-04-21 Thread Josh Malone
When I did this last time I just used dump (on Linux). mke2fs -j /dev/newdisk mount /dev/newdisk /mnt/newdisk ummount /dev/olddisk cd /mnt/newdisk dumpe2fs -a0f - /dev/olddisk | restore -rf - go get some coffee... and a bagel... and wait some more rm restoresymtable cd / umount /mnt/newdisk

Re: [BackupPC-users] Migrating backup machines

2010-04-21 Thread Frédéric Massot
Josh Malone a écrit : When I did this last time I just used dump (on Linux). mke2fs -j /dev/newdisk mount /dev/newdisk /mnt/newdisk ummount /dev/olddisk cd /mnt/newdisk dumpe2fs -a0f - /dev/olddisk | restore -rf - I think you intended to write dump -a0f command from the dump Debian

Re: [BackupPC-users] Migrating backup machines

2010-04-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/21/2010 10:49 AM, Josh Malone wrote: When I did this last time I just used dump (on Linux). mke2fs -j /dev/newdisk mount /dev/newdisk /mnt/newdisk ummount /dev/olddisk cd /mnt/newdisk dumpe2fs -a0f - /dev/olddisk | restore -rf - go get some coffee... and a bagel... and wait some

Re: [BackupPC-users] Migrating backup machines

2010-04-21 Thread Josh Malone
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:33:17 +0200, Frédéric Massot frede...@juliana-multimedia.com wrote: Josh Malone a écrit : When I did this last time I just used dump (on Linux). mke2fs -j /dev/newdisk mount /dev/newdisk /mnt/newdisk ummount /dev/olddisk cd /mnt/newdisk dumpe2fs -a0f - /dev/olddisk

[BackupPC-users] Migrating backup machines

2010-04-20 Thread B. Alexander
If this is covered somewhere in the wiki or elsewhere, please point me to it. With the problems I had with disk space on my backup server recently, I am considering moving it to a machine that has SATA and a 1.5TB drive. However, I would rather not start over again, I want to migrate the data

Re: [BackupPC-users] Migrating backup machines

2010-04-20 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Les Mikesell wrote: faster but takes some obscure commands. Or there is this approach: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=Move_backup_data which is somewhere in between. There is a small typo on this page, could

Re: [BackupPC-users] Migrating backup machines

2010-04-20 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Tuesday 20 April 2010 23:22:47 Les Mikesell wrote: This is discussed by about every new user on the mail list, but the short answer is that there is not a good way to do it. Rsync will work but will take a very long time. Another approach is to image-copy the partition, then expand the