Kameleon wrote: > I was able to get a full backup on 3 of the 4 servers. Two of them I was > able to take the backuppc machine to the location and the third it was > small enough to be able to complete over the T1. However we have one > remaining remote location that has approximately 309GB of data that > needs backing up. This initial full will take anywhere in the range of > 10-20 DAYS according to my numbers. > > However, we do have an rsync of that server on another in-house server. > It is a complete rsync minus a few directories like /proc /var etc. So > we don't have to take the backuppc machine 3 hours away, does anyone > know if it would be possible to somehow setup backuppc to use the > complete existing in-house rsync as the base for the initial full backup? > > The setup on the rsync backup is that the entire backup is stored in > /server/servername. Since backuppc stores the files in relation to the > root directory how would I move the files from > /var/lib/backuppc/pc/rsync-server/0/f%2fserver%2fremoteserver to > /var/lib/backuppc/pc/remoteserver/0/f%2f? Should it be as simple as > moving the folders? Or is this even possible?
One way would be to initially set up the new server backup with a clientalias setting pointing to the local copy. Then after you have a full, remove the clientalias or change it to the real target. But, mv'ing the directories should work too - as long as everything is on the same filesystem and it is done in a way that doesn't break the hardlinked files underneath. -- Les Mikesell lesmiks...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ 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/