Ian wrote: > Hi List, > > Apologies if this has been asked before, cant seem to find a good way of > searching through the archives and in the search results a best practice > way of doing this: > > We have a backuppc server that has been running for more than a year > unmaintained. Since then, people have come and gone, the network > infrastructure has changed and all the current hosts are basically null > and void bar a few of them. What I am wondering is, is there any way to > archive these backups into say 1 archive and compress the hell out of > it. The server is currently setup to run on a static IP system, where I > want to change that to use hostnames as the majority of people run off > laptops and use DHCP for ease of use. I could just leave the old backups > there, but it would seem cluttered and there would be a lot of hosts > that are not being backed up anymore. > > Any advice on how to proceed going further? > > I am a relative newbie to backuppc, so please excuse any stupid questions :)
The native storage format is as compressed as you can get, will all copies of any file being a link to a pooled copy. I'd just add the new host names the way you want and continue since a different copy of the same machine will not take much more space, and set $Conf{FullPeriod} to -1 to disable the ones you want to stop. Then when the new copies have enough history you can remove the old ones. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ 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/