I am running BackupPC 3.0.0 on Ubuntu Hardy - installed from the apt repository.
I have been using it for several months without issue - its backing up all the machines in my office (6 or 7 of them) as well as 1 server that was on a different subnet though located in the same room as the backuppc machine. 2 days ago I switched this server to be on the same subnet as the rest of the office so that the backups could run more quickly (the traffic would not have to go all the way out to the modem and back, just hit the switch between machines - gigabit instead of 100/T). The old IP address of the server was 207.70.x.x, the new one is 192.168.x.x. I went into /var/lib/backuppc/pc and simply renamed the directory from 207.70.x.x to 192.168.x.x. I also changed the host details in the backuppc setup screens to reflect the new IP change. After doing so (and updating some ssh keys) all the backups appeared correctly under the listing for 192.168.x.x from when it was the 207.70.x.x. I then ran a full backup, which took about an hour or so (expected) and completed successfuly. I then attempted to run an incremental backup. This is where problems started: The incremental never finished. I let it run overnight (about 17 hours) and it was steadily transferring data at a very high rate of speed (verified with iftop and other network monitoring software), but the backup never finished. The drive on the server being backed up only has about 70GB of data to backup, yet many hundreds of GB of data were transferred to the backup server. So, what gives? Is there something more I need to change when switching the IP of a backed up machine? (oh, and I'm using rsync for the backups everywhere - mixture of linux and os x hosts being backed up, and all the other hosts backup (both full and incremental) correctly). Thanks! - Kimball http://www.kimballlarsen.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
