Dear list, since I cannot edit the wiki, I wanted to make sure to share this supplemental method of
https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=How_to_import_data_for_a_backup with you. We were tasked with importing a host with several hundreds of gigabytes behind a relatively slow link, and so we employed the station wago method[0]: we shipped a filesystem dump to the remote location and made it available on a host on the same network segment as the BackupPC server and ran an rsync to the remote location to make sure the dump was up-to-date. 0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet#Non-fiction Then — and this is the nice part — we chrooted into the filesystem, started sshd on port 22222, and added the following to ~backuppc/.ssh/config on the BackupPC server: Host the.new.host Hostname the.temporary.host HostKeyAlias the.new.host CheckHostIP no AddressFamily inet Port 22222 After the initial backup had completed, just removing the stanza makes BackupPC interact with the actual host — but it never knew the difference. Hope this helps someone, -- martin | http://madduck.net/ | http://two.sentenc.es/ "marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly." -- voltaire spamtraps: madduck.bo...@madduck.net
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