Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems migrating backups from CentOS 6 to CentOS 7

2020-10-14 Thread Adam Goryachev via BackupPC-users
Since both are ext4 filesystems, I'd prefer a dd copy from one to the other. See this on some sample command line suggestions on how to do this over the network: https://www.ndchost.com/wiki/server-administration/netcat-over-ssh Just make sure the source and destination LV is unmounted during

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems migrating backups from CentOS 6 to CentOS 7

2020-10-13 Thread Bob McClure Jr
Hi Craig, On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 07:52:48PM -0700, BackupPC Users wrote: > The BackupPC 3.x store has large numbers of hardlinks.  What commands are you > using to migrate the data? rsync -a > You need to copy the file system in a manner that is aware of, and > reconstructs, the hardlinks

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems migrating backups from CentOS 6 to CentOS 7

2020-10-13 Thread backuppc
Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users wrote at about 19:52:48 -0700 on Tuesday, October 13, 2020: > The BackupPC 3.x store has large numbers of hardlinks. What commands are > you using to migrate the data? > > You need to copy the file system in a manner that is aware of, and > reconstructs,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems migrating backups from CentOS 6 to CentOS 7

2020-10-13 Thread Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users
The BackupPC 3.x store has large numbers of hardlinks. What commands are you using to migrate the data? You need to copy the file system in a manner that is aware of, and reconstructs, the hardlinks (eg, rsync -aH, or a raw file system copy provided they are compatible). Copying all the

[BackupPC-users] Problems migrating backups from CentOS 6 to CentOS 7

2020-10-13 Thread Bob McClure Jr
I'm migrating my file server from CentOS 6 to CentOS 7. Besides being our file server, it also does DHCP, caching DNS, and BackupPC. I'm having a problem migrating the backups to the new disk, namely running out of space. Both systems are running BackupPC-3.3.1-5.el[67].x86_64, but backuppc is