I am inferring from your email that your "data" filesystem for BackupPC is maxed out and you cannot grow. Your thoughts are to create a new filesystem and start spliting things up between them. If this is true then I believe your answer is "no". BackupPC does de-duplication using hard-links between the files in the pc/[host]/* directory and the (c)pool directory. Hard-links cannot cross filesystems, so creating a second filesystem won't work. Your only choice would be to create a second BackupPC instance and move clients over to the new instance.
I also anticipate that moving clients past backups between instances would prove very difficult. You may be able to do something with BackupPC_tarCreate and BackupPC_tarExtract. On 8/5/08, sabujp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is it possible to move all of the backups and incrementals of a particular > share (/home/user) from one data directory (pool) into another? > > Let's say I've got 100 home directory shares that use up 16TB of data in one > top level directory (pool). I cannot expand this volume beyond 16TB but I can > get another 16TB volume. > > Is it possible to "extract" the backup data for a particular share from one > top level data directory (pool) and move it to another top level data > directory (pool) on another file system? If each of the home directories were > equivalent in the amount of space used, then I could move 50 of the backed up > shares to the other volume and then spread the original 16TB across two 16TB > volumes (leaving 8TB on both volumes). > > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- > |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. > |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > -- Jonathan Craig ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
