sabujp writes: > In the last command that runs BackupPC_tarPCCopy, does this perl command look > at any of the configuration files on the local host or does it just get what > it needs to re-generate the hard links straight from the old "pc" directory? > I looked through the code and don't see that it does look at the local > system's backuppc configuration files under /etc/BackupPC .
It shouldn't look at the config files beyond extracting the TopDir. > What I'm doing is the following: I have two BackupPC servers host1 and host2. > I'm copying the BackupPC directories from a SAN (san2) attached to host2 to > the SAN attached to host1 (san1) . Both SANs are available to both hosts > through a FC switch so I just umount it on host2 and re-mount it on host1. I > then copy the cpool and pool directories to host1's san1. After this is > finished I plan on running BackupPC_tarPCCopy on host1 (san1) against the pc > directory on san2. Just wanted to make sure BackupPC_tarPCCopy wasn't going > to look at host1:/etc/BackupPC/hosts and try something funny . I'm not sure I fully understand what you are trying to do, but it is critical that the cpool directories are identical on the source and target trees before running BackupPC_tarPCCopy. That's because the hardlink structure is deteceted on the source tree, and just the cpool path is sent to the target tar -x so it can create the same hardlink. The cpool files themselves are not transferred by BackupPC_tarPCCopy. I don't think there is a way to transfer a single host's backups using BackupPC_tarPCCopy. Craig ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ 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/
